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Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices
This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national, and transregional contexts.
| Author(s) | Edited by Mahmood Kooria, Sanne Ravensbergen. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 31 May 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national, and transregional contexts.
Introduction 1. The Formation of Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral, c. 615-1000 CE 2. Legal Diglossia, Lexical Borrowing and Mixed Judicial Systems in Early Islamic Java and Sumatra 3. Borrowing Adat and Adopting Islam: The Mandarese Rec
Mahmood Kooria is affiliated with Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Ashoka University, India. He read his PhD at the Leiden University Institute for History in 2016 and is the author of Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Oce
