Book in Focus: Mahmood Kooria, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfi'ī Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Author bio:  Mahmood Kooria is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Ashoka University, and he also holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway). In the past, he has been a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), and the Dutch Institute in Morocco (NIMAR). He studied at the Leiden University Institute for History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Darul Huda Islamic University and University of Calicut. Apart from his first monograph, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Kooria has co-edited Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean: Texts, Ideas and Practices (Routledge, 2022). His research specialisations touch upon premodern Indian Ocean world, Afro-Asian connections, matrilineal Muslims, and Islamic legal history. He is also broadly interested in the premodern interactions between Abrahamic and Indic religions, global mobility of law, and Islamic intellectual history.

Discussant's bio:

Farhat Hasan is Professor in Medieval and Early Modern South Asia in the department of History at University of Delhi. He has worked extensively on the political culture and literary trends in the Mughal Empire. He is also in Indo-Muslim politics and culture in the colonial period. His monographs include Paper, Performance, and State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c. 1572-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).