Konkani Muslims

The Konkani Muslim community forms a part of the larger Konkani-speaking demographic and are predominantly located in the Konkan division of the Indian state of Maharashtra.{{cite journal |title=The People Of Bombay 1850-1914 (An approach paper) |first=Cynthia |last1=Deshmukh |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=40 |year=1979 |pages=836–840 |jstor=44142034}} This includes the administrative districts of Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban, Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg.

There is a diaspora Konkani Muslim community based in Persian Gulf states,{{cite web |url=http://kokancouncil.org/category/kokani-oraganizations/ |title=Kokani Organisations |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-date=11 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311021341/http://kokancouncil.org/category/kokani-oraganizations/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite encyclopedia |title=Impact of migration to the middle east on Ratnagiri |first1=Sudha |last1=Gogate |editor1-first=M. S. A. |editor1-last=Rao |editor2-first=Chandrashekar |editor2-last=Bhat |editor3-first=Laxmi Narayan |editor3-last=Kadekar |encyclopedia=A Reader in Urban Sociology |publisher=Orient Longman |location=New Delhi |year=1991 |pages=371–388 |isbn=978-0-8631-1151-8}} the United Kingdom,{{cite web |url=http://www.kokniluton.co.uk/history.htm |title=Kokni Community Luton |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006154604/http://www.kokniluton.co.uk/history.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.kmab.org.uk/About.php |title=Kokni Muslim Association Birmingham |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703105629/http://kmab.org.uk/About.php |archive-date=3 July 2017 |url-status=dead}} and South Africa.{{cite news |url=http://www.kokannews.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2011-Vol-3-No-1-Kokan-News.pdf#page=22 |title=Kokanis in Cape Town, South Africa |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=22–24 |first=Nujmoonnisa |last=Parker |work=Kokan News |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504174250/http://www.kokannews.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2011-Vol-3-No-1-Kokan-News.pdf#page=22 |archive-date=4 May 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite journal |title=Islam for the Indentured Indian: A Muslim Missionary in Colonial South Africa |first=Nile |last=Green |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |volume=71 |issue=3 |year=2008 |pages=529–553 |jstor=40378804 |doi=10.1017/s0041977x08000876|doi-access=free}} Some Konkani Muslims migrated to Pakistan during the Partition of India in 1947, and are presently settled in Karachi,{{cite web |url=http://www.tungekar.com/karachikokaniz.html |title=Kokani Muslim Jamat Societies, Karachi |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-date=10 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710185235/http://www.tungekar.com/karachikokaniz.html |url-status=dead }} as part of the larger Muhajir community.

Since antiquity, the Konkan coast has had mercantile relations with major ports on the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Konkani Muslims can trace their ancestry to traders from Hadhramaut (in Yemen or South Arabia),{{cite book |last=Khalidi |first=Omar |author-link=Omar Khalidi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_WNqSH4ByQC&pg=PA52 |chapter=The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad |title=Mediaeval Deccan History |editor1=Kulkarni |editor2=Naeem |editor3=De Souza |publisher=Popular Prakashan |location=Bombay |year=1996 |isbn=978-8-1715-4579-7}} the North of Indian (Haryana/Punjab) and other parts of Arabia and the Middle East,{{citation |last=Manger |first=Leif |title=Hadramis in Hyderabad: From Winners to Losers |publisher=Asian Journal of Social Science |volume=35 |number=4–5 |pages=405–433 (29) |url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/saj/2007/00000035/F0020004/art00003 |year=2007}} who visited the Konkan coast between the seventh and eighth centuries AD and fled persecution in North India, during the rule of the Chalukya and Rashtrakuta dynasties.{{cn|date=October 2023}} In the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Konkani Muslims became influential sailors, merchants, and government employees as the port city of Bombay (present Mumbai) began developing.{{cite book | title = Urban leadership in Western India: politics and communities in Bombay city, 1840-1885 | page=7 | year=1972 | first=Christine E. | last=Dobbin | isbn=978-0-19-821841-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/urbanleadershipi0000dobb_6 | access-date=8 February 2022}}

Ancestry formed the basis for social stratification: Konkani people are direct descendants of Arab traders formed an elite class over those who had indirect descent through intermarriages with local women converts to Islam. The Konkani people have a varied ethnic background as most Muslims within the region{{cite web |url=https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Thane/Religion.html |title=Thane District Gazetteer, Government of Maharashtra |access-date=17 July 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://raigad.gov.in/DG/1964/people_muslims.html |title=Colaba District Gazetteer, Government of Maharashtra |access-date=17 July 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://ratnagiri.nic.in/gazetter/gom/people_muslims.html |title=Ratnagiri District Gazetteer, Government of Maharashtra |access-date=17 July 2017}} are descendants of people who migrated from the Delhi region, Hadhramaut (in Yemen or South Arabia), Iran and other parts of Arabia and the Middle East.{{Cite book |last=Wink |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCVyhH5VDjAC |title=Al-hind: The Making of the Indo-islamic World |year=1991 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9-0040-9249-5 |page=68 |language=en}}

Konkani Muslims follow the Shafi’i Islamic jurisprudence This is in contrast to the Deccan regions, where Muslims adhere to the Hanafi school.{{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |first=Md. Jalis Akhtar |last=Nasiri |year=2010 |title=Indian Muslims: Their Customs and Traditions during Last Fifty Years |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru University |location=New Delhi}}{{cite book |chapter=Margins or Center? Konkani Sufis, India and "Arabastan" |first=Deepra |last=Dandekar |pages=141–156 |title=Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn |editor1-first=Katja |editor1-last=Mielke |editor2-first=Anna-Katharina |editor2-last=Hornidge |year=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan}}

Konkanis speak a variety of dialects of Konkani collectively called Maharashtrian Konkani.

The cuisine of Konkani Muslims is meat and seafood. Its staple food is rice and bread made of rice (preferred at dinners) with meat/fish and lentils or vegetables. It is mainly influenced by Kashmiri people who settled in the late 1800s fleeing tensions in the North of India.{{cite web |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-food-konkani-muslim-pop-up-seafood-coconut-weekend/17983168 |title=Mumbai Food: Konkani-Muslim pop-up celebrates all things seafood and coconut |website=www.mid-day.com |publisher=Mid-Day |date=2017-02-10 |access-date=17 July 2017}}

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