Sayyid is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims, recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet's companion, Ali through his sons, Hasan and Husayn.
Muslim Youth League, abbreviated as the Youth League, is the youth wing of the Indian Union Muslim League.
The Mampuram Mosque is a mosque located in Tirurangadi in the Malappuram District of Kerala, India.
Malabar Muslims or Muslim Mappilas, is a member of the Muslim community found predominantly in Kerala and Lakshadweep islands in Southern India. The term Mappila is used to denote Muslims of middle eastern descent in Northern Kerala, and in Southern Kerala for Mar thoma Nazarenes. Muslims of Kerala make up 26.56% of the population of the state (2011), and as a religious group they are the second largest group after Hindus (54.73%). Muslims share the common language of Malayalam with the other religious communities of Kerala.
Cheriyan Kandi Muhammad Koya popularly known as C. H. Muhammad Koya was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Chief Minister of Kerala from October to December 1979. He is more often noted for being the Minister of Education of Kerala from 1967 to 1973 and again from 1977 to 1979. After his Chief Ministership, Koya went on to become the 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala from 1981 until his death in 1983. He is the first Indian Union Muslim League member to lead a state in independent India.
Muhammad Ali Shihab Tangal (Arabic: محمد علي شهاب بن علي الحسيني با علوي)(4 May 1936 – 1 August 2009), known with the honorific prefix Sayed, was an Indian community leader, Islamic scholar and politician from Kerala. He is sometimes regarded as "the most important Mappila leader" of modern Kerala.
Chandrika is an Indian daily newspaper in Malayalam language published from Kozhikode, Kerala. The newspaper currently serves as the mouthpiece of Indian Union Muslim League party in Kerala.
The Thangals are a social group among the Muslims of Kerala, south India. The Thangals are often regarded as roughly equivalent to the more general Sayyids or Sharifs, or descendants of Muhammad, of the wider Islamic culture. Most members of the community practices endogamy and rarely marry spouses from outside their community.
Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal was a sayyid (thangal) community leader and religious scholar from Kerala, southern India who was the Kerala State President and Chairman, National Political Advisory Committee, Indian Union Muslim League from 2009 to 2022. He was also the Vice President of the Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', the principal Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in Kerala.
K. M. Seethi Sahib (1899—1961), born K. M. Seethi, was an Indian politician and community leader from Kerala. He served as the Speaker of Kerala Assembly during 1960-61.
Mampuram is a Muslim pilgrimage centre located 26 km east of Tirur, Malappuram district, Kerala, South India on the Malabar Coast. Malappuram is on the banks of the river Kadalundipuzha. The Mamburam Makham, which is the shrine intended and used primarily as a receptacle for the dead bodies of the principle Thangals is located there. The Malappuram Nercha, is held every year in the month of Muharram near the tomb of Sayyid Alavi Thangal.
Sayyid ʿAlawī Mawlā al-Dawīlah al-Ḥusaynī (1752–1845) was a Hadrami Islamic scholar who settled at Mampuram in Kerala, India. His tomb, also located in Mampuram, is considered one of the greatest pilgrimage centers in southern India. His son was Sayyid Fadl, also known as Fazal Pookoya Thangal.
Abdurrahiman Bafaqi Thangal (1905—1973) was an Indian community leader and politician from Kerala. Until his death in the early 1970s, Bafaqi Thangal remained the most prominent Muslim political leader in Kerala. He is generally credited with transforming the perception of Indian Union Muslim League inside Kerala.
Habib Fazl Bin Alawi Mouladvīla Al HusayniPashaaliasFazal Pookoya Thangal, also known as Sayyid Fadl and Fadl Pasha, was a Yemeni Islamic missionary and political activist who played a prominent role in the Mappila community of Kerala, India. He was the spiritual leader of Kerala Muslims as well as one of the pioneers of the Indian freedom movement. He belonged to a family of Sayyids who traced their lineage to Ali ibn Abi Talib through Mamburam Sayyid Alavi Mouladhavila. His father was Mamburam Sayyid Alavi Thangal, a Muslim mystic and political leader who had migrated from Hadramaut in Yemen to Malabar in 1798 CE to spread Islam. After his father's death in 1845 CE, he succeeded him as the spiritual leader of Kerala Muslims.
Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) is an Islamic organization in the state of Kerala founded in 1950. The organization is part of the Islamic reformist Mujahid Movement and follows the principles of Salafism. The Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen was formed as a result of renaissance activities among Keralite Muslims led by scholars and clerics such as Sheikh Hamadani Thangal, K.M. Moulavi and Vakkom Moulavi and E. Moidu Moulavi and Ummer Moulavi. Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen is considered as the successor of Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangam, the first Muslim organization in the state of Kerala, founded in 1924. The Mujahid movement laid the foundations of Islamic renaissance in Kerala by campaigning against corrupted practices of the Sufi orders, superstitions, false beliefs, polytheism etc., and called for the revival of true Islamic practices to the Muslim community in Kerala which had until then been severely lacking in crucial aspects of religious and socio-civic knowledge. The Mujahids consider themselves as proponents of authentic Islamic reform, pursuing a purified concept of Tawhid.
B. Pocker, Badekkandy, also spelled Poker, title Sahib Bahadur, as an Indian politician and lawyer from Tellicherry, north Kerala, Madras Presidency. He served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and as the Member of Parliament from Malappuram Parliamentary Constituency between 1952 and 1962.
Pūkkoya family alias Pathiya māļiyèkkal family(പതിയ മാളിയെക്കൽ) of Panakkad is a Yemeni-origin Hussaynite Ba Alawi House of sayyid family based in present-day northern Kerala. The family, claiming descent from the family of Muhammad through Hussayn bin Ali, is generally revered by the Sunni Shāfiʿī Kerala Muslims. The family got the name 'Pukkoya family' from Habib Ali Shihabudden AlHussaini Ba Alavi, who was called as 'P. M. S. A. Pukkoya Thangal'(Sayyid Pathiya Maliyekkal Sayeed Ahmed AlHussainy Pookoya Thangal) by the keralites.The thangals are respected as religious and political leaders amongst the Muslims of Kerala.
Syed Mueen Ali Shihab Thangal is a member of the Pukkoya Tangal family and the national vice president of the Muslim Youth League. He is the son of former Indian Union Muslim League State president Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal.
Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal (born 25 May 1964) is a sayyid (thangal) community leader and politician from Kerala, southern India. He currently serves as the Kerala State President, Indian Union Muslim League, Chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University
Abbas Ali Shihab Thangal also known as Panakkad Sayed Abbas Ali Shihab Thangal is a Sayyid ,(thangal) community leader from Kerala, India. He is the youngest son of Sayed Pookoya thangal, Panakkad. He is National Political Advisory Committee, Indian Union Muslim League, He holds various significant positions including Malappuram District President of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). He former president of Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) which is the students wing of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama.
