K. C. Mujeebu Rahman

About

K. C. Mujeebu Rahman is a senior researcher at Kotak School of Sustainability, IIT Kanpur. He holds a PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. His research interests encompass economic sociology, Islam, entrepreneurship, wealth accumulation, and the intersection of law and religion. He is a former AIF William J. Clinton Fellow 2017-18.

Employment

• Kotak School of Sustainability, IIT Kanpur Senior Project Executive Officer
  2026 - Present
• PMA SAFI Human Resources Institute, Malappuram Asst Professor
  2024 - 2025

Education

• IIT Kanpur PhD
  2018 - 2024

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• Religion, economic acumen and authority: an ethnographic study of Muslim entrepreneurship in Malabar, India
  Journal of Cultural Economy 2026 DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2026.2678261
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• Gold, Economy and Religion: Insights From Malabar’s Muslim Community in India
  Anthropology Now 2026 DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2026.2651669
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• Muslim Personal Law, Inheritance, and Innovation: The Curious Case of Shukkur and Sheena’s Remarriage
  Economic and Political Weekly 2026 DOI: 10.71279/epw.v61i07.43656
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• Precarity, Mobility, and the Law: Reframing Human Trafficking in India
  Journal of Human Trafficking 2025 DOI: 10.1080/23322705.2025.2602121
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• Malabar Gold: Relational, Reproductive Saving, Gendered Property and Wealth Accumulation among Kerala Muslims
  Gold in India 2025 DOI: 10.1017/9781009521680.009
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• Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation
  Journal of Legal Anthropology 2022 DOI: 10.3167/jla.2022.060103
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• Sharia, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Personal Law: Ethnographic Lessons from the Mahallu System of Malabar, India
  Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 2022 DOI: 10.1080/13602004.2022.2051946
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• Law and Religion in India and Beyond
  Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" 2019
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