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Customizing Islamic Law: Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean

by Mahmood Kooria
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789048559596
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
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  • Pages: 386
  • Original Price: GBP 150.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 666 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Islamic

Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have historically followed a matrilineal system, where women had better economic and social stability and an upper hand in their personal choices. The system raised serious questions as the Islamic legal tradition evolved in the Middle East, especially when some inheritance customs gave men little to no share in the property. Bringing diverse matrilineal Muslim communities together for the first time, this volume studies their engagements against the patriarchal interpretations of Sharia in comparative and connected perspectives. The comparisons and connections go beyond the Indian Ocean and Islamic world, to the Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan and North African contexts as well as to the Christian, Jewish and Hindu traditions. The contributors explore how and why the followers of the matrilineal praxis defended the system within the legal epistemologies of their religion.

Mahmood Kooria is a historian based at University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i. Texts across Mediterranean and Indian Ocean (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-edited Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean: Texts, Ideas and Practices (Routledge, 2022) and Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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