Mahmood Kooria

Mahmood Kuria is a social scientist and historian from Kerala, India. He is a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and is originally from Panangara near Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district. His research areas include Indian Ocean studies, global legal history, Afro-Asian relations, and the intellectual history of Islam. In 2024, he was awarded the Infosys Prize. Previously, he received a National Research Fellowship from the Dutch government, valued at approximately Rs 2 crore. His studies on the role of animals, such as elephants, horses, and donkeys, during the Malabar rebellion have received attention.

Life

Mahmood Kuria, son of late Kuriyadathody Kunjimoideen Musaliyar and Mambrathodi Maimoona of Panangangara in Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district, completed his PG and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi after studying at Chemmad Darul Huda Islamic University and Calicut University. He has also taught at Ashoka University in Delhi, Leiden University, Bergen University and Jakarta National Islamic University. He earned his PhD from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Books and Papers

• Narrating Africa in South Asia (Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series)
• Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
• Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices (Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia)