Mahmood Kooria - Islamic Law in Circulation

Chase F. Robinson, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution (general editor)

Anne Broadbridge, UMass Amberst

Michael Cook, Princeton University

Maribel Fierro, Spanish National Research Council

Alan Mikhail, Yale University

Intisar Rabb, Harvard University

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University

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DOI: 10.1017/9781009106825

Mahmood Kooria 2022

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kooria, Mahmood, author.

Title: Islamic law in circulation : Shfi texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean / Mahmood Kooria, Universiteit Leiden.

Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. | Series: Cambridge studies in islamic civilization | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021049802 (print) | LCCN 2021049803 (ebook) | ISBN 9781009098038 (hardback) | ISBN 9781009107679 (paperback) | ISBN 9781009106825 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Islamic lawIndian Ocean Region. | Islamic lawMediterranean Region. | Shafiites.

Classification: LCC KBP325 .K66 2022 (print) | LCC KBP325 (ebook) | DDC 340.5/9091824dc23/eng/20211109

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021049802

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021049803

This book is a product of a journey which has lasted a decade, from the moment I decided to study this topic until it was complete. Several people, places and institutions across many countries have supported me enormously in this long meditation. Words are not enough to thank all of them, but I count it an honour to be able now to acknowledge their unstinting support, even though space restricts me from compiling a full list.

Jos Gommans read many drafts of my doctoral dissertation, which forms the core of this book, and his feedback was exceptionally sagacious. Maaike van Berkel, Lon Buskens, Henri Chambert-Loir, Jatin Dua, R. Michael Feener, Tom Hoogervorst, Iza Hussin, Nico Kaptein, Ronit Ricci, Petra Sijpesteijn and Jan Just Witkam read the dissertation in detail and provided insightful comments for converting it into a book. In addition, Joel Blecher, David Kloos and Nira Wickramasinghe also guided me on the practicalities of writing and publishing this book. Robert Gleave, Engseng Ho, Michael Laffan and Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi have been sources of continuous support and have graciously advised me whenever I struggled. Sanne Ravensbergen has always been an intellectual and personal inspiration.

Discussions with Omar Anchassi, Nijmi Edres, Eirik Hovden, Irene Schneider and Knut Vikr as part of the Understanding Sharia: Perfect Past, Imperfect Present (USPPIP) project helped me refine some of my arguments. Philippe Peycam stimulated me to link the research to larger institutional plans and projects. Norifumi Daito, Archa N. Girija, Meera Muralidharan, Byapti Sur and Guanmian Xu were on hand to offer intellectual and emotional support, while Hayat Ahlili, Abdullah Alhatlani, Marcela Garcia Probert, Eftychia Mylona and Tijmen Baarda became great compadres through our shared interests in Middle Eastern history. Abhishek Avtans, Sarthak Bagchi, Murari Kumar Jha and Pralay Kanungo added flavours of camaraderie and nostalgia to the long hours of conversations. Auswaf Ahsan Ophira Gamliel, Abhilash Malayil and Istvn Perczel provided different perspectives to look at southwestern Indic traditions, while Yogesh Sharma taught me about the breadths and depths of Indian Ocean studies, a subject I often continued in seemingly endless chats with dearest Shelly Johny, Rajeesh Kumar and Abdur Rahoof Ottathingal. Supriya Varma and the late Vijaya Ramaswamy guided me through the different ways of understanding the ancient South Asian past.

When travelling like a nomad in the name of knowledge, many friends welcomed me into their homes, acclimatised me to new terrains and became great company inside and outside academic settings: specifically Dadi Darmadi in Jakarta; Arfiansyah and P. B. Siddik in Aceh; Abdulkader Tayob and Shaheed Tayob in Cape Town; Muhammad Arafath, Annu Jalais, Carola Lorea and Shafeek Hudawi in Singapore; Sayyid Muhsin in Kuala Lumpur; Nisa Harun and Jafer Paramboor at Seremban; Sami al-Daghistani and Soraya Batmanghelichi, and also Mosarrap Khan and Mary Ann in New York; and Kareem, Fayiz and Abid in London.