Mahmood Kooria

• Water Unites Us, Land Divides Us
• History of India, 800-1800 CE
• Global History of Law: Premodern Courts, Codes and Canons
• Oceanic Histories and Monsoon Cultures
• Islam in the Indian Ocean

Book

Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Edited Volumes

Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region, edited with Michael Pearson (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018). 

Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean: Texts, Ideas and Practices, edited with Sanne Ravensbergen (New York: Routledge, 2022).

Special Issues

“Matrilineal Negotiations with Islam.” Special section with the International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 23, no. 2 (2021).

 “Narrating Africa in South Asia.” Special issue of the South Asian History and Culture, vol. 11, no. 4 (2020). 

“An Indian Ocean of Law: Spaces and Hybridity.” Special issue of the Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, edited with Sanne Ravensbergen, vol. 42, no. 2 (2018).

• “Un agent abyssinien et deux rois indiens à La Mecque: Interactions autour du droit islamique au XVe siècle.” Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 74, no. 1 (2020): 75-103. 
• “Languages of Law: Legal Cosmopolis and its Arabic and Malay Microcosmoi.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 29, no. 4 (2019): 705-722. 
•  “Eastern African doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic Intellectual Interactions.” South Asian History and Culture, vol. 11, no. 4 (2020): 363-373. Routledge. 
•  “Politics, Economy and Islam in ‘Dutch Ponnāni’, Malabar Coast.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 62, no. 1 (2019): 1-35. 
• “Uses and Abuses of the Past: An Ethno-History of Islamic Legal Texts.” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 7, no. 2 (2018): 313-338.
•  “Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic al-Muḥarrar and Javanese Law-Book: VOC’s Experiments with Muslim Law in Java, 1747-1767.” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction vol. 41, no. 2 (2018): 202-219.
• “Using the Past and Bridging the Gap: Premodern Islamic Legal Texts in New Media.” Law and History Review, vol. 36, no. 4 (2018): 725-752.
•  “Texts as Objects of Value and Veneration: Islamic Law Books in the Indian Ocean Littoral.” Sociology of Islam, vol. 6, no. 1 (2018): 60-83.
• “Early Dutch Encounters with Islamic Law: The Text and Translation of Mogharaer Code or Semarang Compendium.” Indonesia, vol. 106 (2018): 45-87.
• “An Abode of Islam with a Hindu King: Circuitous Imagination of Kingdoms in Sixteenth Century Malabar.” Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (2017): 89-109.
• “Words of ʿAjam in the World of Arab: Translation and Translator in Early Islamic Judicial Procedure.” Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, eds. Intisar Rabb and Abigail Balbale (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018): 71-90.
• “In Between Many Worlds of One Law: Arab, Malay and Filipino Legal Intermixtures of Shāfiʿīsm.” In Philippine Crossings: Entangled Voices between Oceans, eds. Jos Gommans, Jorge Flores and Ariel Lopez (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020), 311-331.