diff --git a/git/index/fun.py b/git/index/fun.py
index 629c19b1e..71dd96e7f 100644
--- a/git/index/fun.py
+++ b/git/index/fun.py
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@ def hook_path(name: str, git_dir: PathLike) -> str:
     return osp.join(git_dir, "hooks", name)
 
 
+def _commit_hook_path(name: str, index: "IndexFile") -> str:
+    """:return: path to the named commit hook, respecting Git's core.hooksPath."""
+    hp = index.repo.git.rev_parse("--git-path", f"hooks/{name}")
+    if osp.isabs(hp):
+        return hp
+
+    base_dir = index.repo.working_dir or index.repo.git_dir
+    return osp.abspath(osp.join(base_dir, hp))
+
+
 def _has_file_extension(path: str) -> str:
     return osp.splitext(path)[1]
 
@@ -82,7 +92,7 @@ def run_commit_hook(name: str, index: "IndexFile", *args: str) -> None:
 
     :raise git.exc.HookExecutionError:
     """
-    hp = hook_path(name, index.repo.git_dir)
+    hp = _commit_hook_path(name, index)
     if not os.access(hp, os.X_OK):
         return
 
diff --git a/test/test_index.py b/test/test_index.py
index 3be750dbb..ea8aa81ca 100644
--- a/test/test_index.py
+++ b/test/test_index.py
@@ -1160,6 +1160,32 @@ def test_pre_commit_hook_success(self, rw_repo):
         _make_hook(index.repo.git_dir, "pre-commit", "exit 0")
         index.commit("This should not fail")
 
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(
+        type(_win_bash_status) is WinBashStatus.Absent,
+        reason="Can't run a hook on Windows without bash.exe.",
+        raises=HookExecutionError,
+    )
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(
+        type(_win_bash_status) is WinBashStatus.WslNoDistro,
+        reason="Currently uses the bash.exe of WSL, even with no WSL distro installed",
+        raises=HookExecutionError,
+    )
+    @with_rw_repo("HEAD", bare=True)
+    def test_pre_commit_hook_respects_core_hooks_path(self, rw_repo):
+        index = rw_repo.index
+        hooks_dir = Path(index.repo.git_dir, "custom-hooks")
+        hooks_dir.mkdir()
+        hp = hooks_dir / "pre-commit"
+        hp.write_text(HOOKS_SHEBANG + "echo 'ran custom hook' >custom-hook-output.txt", encoding="utf-8")
+        os.chmod(hp, 0o744)
+
+        with index.repo.config_writer() as writer:
+            writer.set_value("core", "hooksPath", "custom-hooks")
+
+        index.commit("This should run the custom hook")
+        output = Path(rw_repo.git_dir, "custom-hook-output.txt").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        self.assertEqual(output, "ran custom hook\n")
+
     @pytest.mark.xfail(
         type(_win_bash_status) is WinBashStatus.WslNoDistro,
         reason="Currently uses the bash.exe of WSL, even with no WSL distro installed",