Mahmood Kooria is Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK. Earlier he held teaching and research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands), University of Bergen (Norway), Ashoka University (India), National Islamic University Jakarta (Indonesia), International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden (the Netherlands), Dutch Institute in Rabat (Morocco). He read his PhD at the Leiden University Institute for History, authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 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).
Eirik Hovden is, as of spring 2025, an associate professor in Arabic and Middle Eastern History at the University of Bergen, Norway. From 2020–2025, he led the starting grant project "Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts," funded by the Trond Mohn Research Foundation in Bergen. Previously, he worked as a researcher on the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) project "Uses of the past" in Islamic law, led by Robert Gleave. Hovden's first postdoctoral work in Vienna (Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences) focused on the politics of the doctrinal landscape of medieval highland Yemen. His PhD and monograph (Brill 2019, translated into Arabic in 2024) examine the historical development of Zaydī waqf law in Yemen.
Mohamed Aidarus Noor is an Alexander Von Humboldt Postdoc Fellow based in the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD from the Department of Archaeology, History, Culture Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen in Norway, where he is also affiliated with the CanCode project. His current research delves into the evolution of Islamic legal texts, concentrating on the canonization processes of Minhāj al-ṭālibīn wa-ʿumdat al-muftīn, authored by the distinguished Syrian jurist Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. Sharaf al-Nawawī (631/1233-676/1277). This text has played a crucial role in shaping juristic discourse and Islamic legal practices across various legal and academic contexts within the Swahili society of the East Coast of Africa.
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