Mahmood Kooria is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and he joined the department in 2019. He also holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway). Earlier he was 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.

He has authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and 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 are 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.