Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)

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Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulama
Formation26 June 1926(98 years ago) (1926-06-26) [lower-alpha 1]
Founder Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal [lower-alpha 2]
Type Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body
General Secretary
 Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar [3]
President
 E. Sulaiman Musliyar [3]
Treasurer
Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar [3]
Secretaries
Vice Presidents
  • Sayyid Ali Bafaqi Thangal [3]
  • P. A. Aidrus Musliyar Kollam [3]
  • K. S. Attakoya Thangal Kumbol [3]

Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of AP Sunnis, also known as Samastha [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and AP Samastha, [4] is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala. [9] [10] [11] [4] The council administers Shafi'ite mosques, institutes of higher religious learning (the equivalent of north Indian madrasas) and madrasas (institutions where children receive basic Islamic education) in India. [9] There are two organisations known as Samastha, one named after E. K. Aboobacker Musliyar and the other after Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, both of which emerged in 1989, due to organisational disagreement in Samastha. [4] [12]

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Similar to EK Sunnis, a forty-member council also known as the 'mushawara' functions a high command body of AP Sunnis. [13] [14] As of December 2023, the council includes Samastha general secretary Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar; Samastha president E. Sulaiman Musliar; vice presidents Sayyid Ali Bafaqi Thangal, P. A. Aidrus Musliyar Kollam and K. S. Attakoya Thangal Kumbol; [3] treasurer Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar; [3] secretaries Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari, Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliyar and Perod Abdurahman Saqafi. [4]

Population makeup

Traditionally Muslims of Kerala are Sunnis, predominantly Shafi'is where around two-thirds of the Muslim population is AP and EK Sunnis, respective Samasthas of which emerged in 1989 due to disagreement in Samastha. The reformist Mujahids, belonging to the Salafi movement, make up around 10 percent of the total Muslim population of Kerala. Though there is presence of groups like Tabligi Jamaat and Jamaate Islami, by far biggest groupings are Sunnis and Mujahids. [9] [4] [12]

Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction), Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction), Dakshina Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama and Kerala Samsthana Jem-iyyathul Ulama are different factions of Sunnis in Kerala, while Dakshina Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama is the dominant group in the southern part of the state. [15]

Ideological difference

Samastha began in 1926 to counter Vakkom Moulavi's Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangam [14] —the precursor of KNM and the wider Mujahid movement. Only traditionalist Sunnis are called Sunnis in Kerala in contrast to the reformist ones. The four different factions of Sunnis in Kerala have "almost the same ideology and beliefs". Haris Madani, a young scholar belonging to AP Sunnis, in 2022, said the difference between AP and EK Sunnis is purely organisational whereas Husain Madavoor, a Mujahid leader, considers fiqh to be irrelevant. [9] [4] [12] [15]

Samastha in AP Sunnis' words

Change of name

Kanthapuram, a leader of AP Sunnis says Sunnis formed an organisation to counter the religious reformists with the name Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama. But the reformist people had registered the same name. So Sunnis had to add the term "Samastha" to the name of the organisation at the conference held at Kozhikode Town Hall on 26 June 1926. [1]

Reorganisation

Kanthapuram further says Samastha was reorganised and went ahead with the interests Samastha had at the time of its formation, when there were attempts to join with the reformists and deviate in Samastha around 1989. [1]

Success

Kanthapuram explains people unitedly supported Samastha after its formation. He also says after the reorganisation in 1989, the Samastha went ahead with strong force, with all policies and ideologies of Samastha all over India and outside. [1]

Affiliated entities

Sunni Students Federation (SSF) Ssf flag (1).jpg
Sunni Students Federation (SSF)

Samastha of AP Sunnis have several affiliated entities. [3] [16] They include:

Other entities of AP Sunnis

Organisations

Periodicals

Notable institutions

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Per AP Sunnis [1]
  2. ↑ Per AP Sunnis [2]

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