Marakkar

For the Indian film, see Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea.

The Marakkars[a] are a South Asian Muslim community found in parts of the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka. The Marakkars speak Malayalam in Kerala and Tamil in Tamil Nadu and both Tamil and Sinhala in Sri Lanka.[3]

The community trace their ancestry to marriages between early Arab Muslim traders of the high seas and indigenous Paravar coastal women[4] on the Gulf of Mannar coast and with Mukkuvar coastal women. Arab traders have also married other South Asian women in India and Sri Lanka, but their descendants are not necessarily members of the Marakkar community.[5][6][2]

  1. ^ Tschacher, Torsten (2006). "The Impact of Being Tamil on Religious Life Among Tamil Muslins in Singapore" (PDF). Degree of Doctor of Philosophy PhD: 79 – via National University of Singapore.
  2. ^ a b Hoogervorst, Tom G. (2015). "Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil". Wacana. 16 (2): 249–283. doi:10.17510/wacana.v16i2.378 – via Brill.
  3. ^ Kunhali, V. "Muslim Communities in Kerala to 1798" PhD Dissertation Aligarh Muslim University (1986) [1]
  4. ^ The History of the Pearl Fishery of the Tamil coast by S. Arunachalam (1952), Page 89
  5. ^ Prashant More, Jean-Baptiste (1991). "The Marakkayar Muslims of Karikal, South India". Journal of Islamic Studies. 2: 25–44. doi:10.1093/jis/2.1.25. PMC 355923. PMID 15455059 – via Oxford Academic Journals.
  6. ^ Cf. Bayly 1989: 73–103; Bjerrum 1920: 172–173; Fanselow 1989: 274–281; Kamāl 1990: 37–55; More 2004: 3–27


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