Dr K.C Mujeeb Rahman
Assistant Professor
Biography
Personal Details :
Dr. K. C. Mujeebu Rahman is an author and researcher who earned his PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. His research interests encompass entrepreneurship, accumulation, networking, gold, and money. His scholarship has been appeared in JMMA, Routledge (2022), JLA, Berghahn - New York (2022), Campus - Frankfurt (2022), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2024), Multiple Secularities (2019), WION (2018), Qrius (2018), and AIF (2018). Previously, Dr. Rahman served as a William J. Clinton Fellow with the American India Foundation. His research has been presented at various prestigious forums, including the Global South Studies Centre at the University of Cologne (2023) and the KFG "Multiple Secularities" at Leipzig University, Germany (2019), University of Western Australia, Perth (2023), European Academy of Religion (EuARe) in Muenster, Germany (2021), Journal of Legal Anthropology in New York (2021), and the University of Leeds (2023). Dr. Rahman holds a Masters from IIT Gandhinagar
Academics
Academic Background :
PhD: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur (2024)
Post Graduation: IIT Gandhinagar (2017), Azim Premji University (2015)
Research
Journal Articles :
Rahman, K. C. Mujeebu, and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Sharia, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Personal Law: Ethnographic Lessons from the Mahallu System of Malabar, India.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 42, no. 1 (January 2, 2022): 160–75
https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2022.2051946
Chakrabarti, Anindita, K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, and Suchandra Ghosh. "Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation: Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgement in India." Journal of Legal Anthropology 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 24-48
https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2022.060103
Book Chapters :
Rahman, K. C. Mujeebu, and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Max Weber, Religion, and Economic Acumen: the Curious Case of Muslim Entrepreneurship in Malabar, India.” In Verstehen ist ein zentrales Konzept der Soziologie, edited by Uta Karstein, Marian Burchardt, and Thomas Schmidt-Lux, 189-208. Frankfurt. New York, Campus verlag, 2022
Rahman, K. C. Mujeebu, and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Malabar Gold: Relational, Reproductive Saving, Gendered Property, and Wealth Accumulation among Kerala Muslims.” In Gold in India: Commodity, Culture, and Economic Circuits, edited by Anindita Chakrabarti and Barbara Harriss-White, Cambridge University Press, 2024 (Forthcoming)
Online Publications :
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu. “Law and Religion in India and Beyond / Multiple Secularities.” Law and Religion in India and Beyond / Multiple Secularities, August 2019
https://www.multiple-secularities.de/bulletin/law-and-religion-in-india-andbeyond
Opinion :
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Analysing the Trafficking of Persons Bill 2018: Is It a Step Forward for India? | Qrius.” Qrius, April 7, 2018
https://qrius.com/trafficking-of-persons-bill-2018-a-step-forward-for-india/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Opinion: Labour Approach Offers More Effective Strategies for Combating Trafficking.” WION, September 2018
Online Columns :
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Khap System and Human Rights in India.” Khap system and human rights in India | Cafe Dissensus Everyday, April 20, 2018
https://cafedissensusblog.com/2018/04/20/khap-system-and-human-rights-in-india/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Encountering the State in Ranchi, Jharkhand.” Encountering the State in Ranchi, Jharkhand | Cafe Dissensus Everyday, January 9, 2018
https://aif.org/human-trafficking-in-india-the-labour-approach/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Human Trafficking in India: Shifting to a Labour Approach - AIF.” AIF, August 28, 2018
https://cafedissensusblog.com/2018/01/09/encountering-the-state-in-ranchi-jharkhand/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu . “Can Development Interventions Reduce Human Trafficking? - AIF.” AIF, August 21, 2018
https://aif.org/can-development-interventions-reduce-human-trafficking/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu. “Bonded to Forced Labour: Behind Brick Making - AIF.” AIF, April 30, 2018
https://aif.org/bonded-to-forced-labour-behind-brick-making/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu. “When the Cabinet Nods to the First Human Trafficking Bill in India - AIF.” AIF, April 25, 2018
https://aif.org/when-the-cabinet-nods-to-the-first-human-trafficking-bill-in-india/
Rahman, K. C. Mujeebu. “Possibilities of a Holistic Approach in Anti-Trafficking Advocacy - AIF.” AIF, April 21, 2018
https://aif.org/possibilities-of-a-holistic-approach-in-anti-trafficking-advocacy/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu. “She Got Her Life Back! - AIF.” AIF, April 6, 2018
https://aif.org/she-got-her-life-back/
Rahman, K. C. Mujeebu. “Ending Human Trafficking in Jharkhand and Creating Safe Mobility - AIF.” AIF, January 24, 2018
https://aif.org/ending-human-trafficking-in-jharkhand-and-creating-safe-mobility/
Rahman , K. C. Mujeebu. “Migration of Freedom and Opportunities - AIF.” AIF, January 15, 2018
https://aif.org/migration-of-freedom-and-opportunities/
Conferences and Seminars :
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, Mua’amalat and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Muslim Entrepreneurs in Malabar, Kerala [Workshop presentation] Capitalist Virtue Ethics?: Ethnographic Explorations, Research Workshop,The University of Cologne(29-30, June 2023), University of Cologne
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, Sharia, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India [Conference presentation] The fourth Annual Conference of AAIMS (21-22 November 2023) Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia , Perth
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman and Anindita Chakrabarti, Environmental Discourse in the Muslim Public Sphere in Kerala: A Sociological Investigation [Conference presentation] Religion, Faith, Spirituality, and Sustainability (Session of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”) (29 August – 3 September, 2021) European Academy of Religion (EuARe) Muenster, Germany
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, and Anindita Chakrabarti, Religion as an Object of Social Scientific Study: the Case of Islam in India [Conference Presentation] Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives. (4-5 November 2021) Workshop at the Centre for Advanced Studies„ Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities“ Leipzig University
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, and Anindita Chakrabarti, “Of Marriage, Divorce and Family Laws: Feminist Activism and Muslim Personal Law Reform in India”, Workshop on The Best of Intentions: Marriage, Women's Rights and Legal Reform in Muslim Societies, Journal of Legal Anthropology, New York (November 2021)
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, and Anindita Chakrabarti “Gold Standard in Household Economy: A Qualitative Study of Gold Consumption in Malabar” [Conference Presentation] 6th IGPC - IIMA Annual Gold and Gold Markets Conference 2023, (Feb 9-10, 2023) New Delhi
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman “The Colonial Legacy of Personal Law: Understanding Muslim and Hindu Subjectivities in India [conference] 2nd International Conference on Critical Muslim Studies: ReOrienting the Muslim Question , University of Leeds from 16th-18th of June 2023
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman “Sharia, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Personal Law in India [conference] Third Asian Legal History Conference at the CUHK Graduate Law Centre, Hong Kong , 2023 (June, 20-21)