Muhammed Niyas A
Assistant Professor
Department of History
GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Bengaluru
Education
M. phil.
mashraf@gitam.edu
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Muhammed Niyas Ashraf submitted his doctoral thesis at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His Ph.D. project unravels Arabic- Malayalam devotional poetry of Malabar Muslims in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Littoral. In 2019, he was a DAAD visiting fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
Research Publications
- “Saints Textualized: Pious Commemoration of Friends of God and Vernacular Hagiographies in Nineteenth Century Malabar,” in Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives, ed. Elwin Susan John and Amal P Mathews, London: Routledge, 2024.
- “Entanglement of Arabic-Malayalam Print Culture and Mappila Community Formation in Colonial Kerala,” in The Universe of Words: Two years of Malayalam Printing, ed. Babu Cherian. Kottayam: Benjamin Bailey Foundation, 2021
- Shaping Muslim Literary Heritage: Māppiḷapāṭṭŭ in Malayalam Literary Culture. Special Issue: Folklore from South Asia. Nidan: International Journal of Indian Studies, Vol.7, no.1 (July 2022). https://doi.org/10.36886/nidan.2022.7.1.2 (ISSN 2414-8636).
- “Memories of Suffering: Vernacular Hagiographies and the Historical Sensibilities of the Nineteenth Century Malabar Muslims,” in Brill Handbook of Indian Memory Studies, (Forthcoming 2024).
Expertise
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Nineteenth Century
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Print and Literary Culture in the Indian Ocean
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Vernacular Textual Traditions
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Islamic Intellectual History
Authored Books
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Islamic Reformism and malayāḷi ummah in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Kerala, South West Indian Ocean’
