Mahmood Kooria

Mahmood Kooria is a historian of the Indian Ocean World, currently teaching at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History. He did his PhD in Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History in 2016, authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi?i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2022), and co-edited Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford, 2018). In 2024, he won the Infosys Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences for his contributions to the studies of Islam and Malabar in the Indian Ocean world.