The Indian Union Muslim League is an Indian political party primarily based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India.
Mappila Muslim, often shortened to Mappila, formerly anglicized as Moplah/Mopla and historically known as Jonaka/Chonaka Mappila or Moors Mopulars/Mouros da Terra and Mouros Malabares, in general, is a member of the Muslim community of same name found predominantly in Kerala and Lakshadweep Islands, in southern India. 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%). Mappilas share the common language of Malayalam with the other religious communities of Kerala.
Cheriyan Kandi Muhammad Koya, known as C. H. Muhammad Koya, was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Education in Kerala Government from 1967 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979. He also led the cabinet as the eighth Chief Minister of Kerala from 12 October to 1 December 1979. Koya was the first Indian Union Muslim League member to lead a state in independent India.
Kondotty is a developing town, municipality, and aerotropolis in the Malappuram district state of Kerala, India which is located near Calicut International Airport, 24 km from Malappuram. It is the headquarters of Kondotty Taluk, which was declared as the seventh taluk in Malappuram district by chief minister Oommen Chandy on 23 December 2013.
Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Ba-Alawi Al-Hussainy Pookoya Thangal was a Muslim religious leader and politician from Kerala. He was the President of the Kerala state committee of the Indian Union Muslim League and a member of the Pukkoya Thangal family,
Islam arrived in Kerala, the Malayalam-speaking region in the south-western tip of India, through Middle Eastern merchants. The Indian coast has an ancient relation with West Asia and the Middle East, even during the pre-Islamic period.
The thangals are a social group among the Muslims of Kerala, south India (Sunni-Shafi'i). The thangals are often regarded as roughly equivalent to the more general Sayyids/Sharifs of the wider Islamic culture. They are the direct descendants of Muhammad. Most members of the community practices endogamy and rarely marry outside from 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.
Kerala has a reputation of being, communally, one of the most religiously diverse states in India. According to 2011 Census of India figures, 54.73% of Kerala's population are Hindus, 26.56% are Muslims, 18.38% are Christians, and the remaining 0.33% follow other religions or have no religion. Various tribal people in Kerala have retained the religious beliefs of their ancestors. In comparison with the rest of India, Kerala experiences relatively little sectarianism.
K. M. Seethi Sahib (1899—1961), born K. M. Seethi, was an Indian politician and community leader from Kerala. He is often considered as a chief architect of the Kerala Muslim revival after the 1921 Mappila Uprising. Seethi Sahib was also a protégé of the reformist leader Wakkom Maulavi (1873—1932). He served as the Speaker of Kerala Assembly during 1960-61.
The undivided Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama was the principal Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in Kerala. It was organised in the aftermath of the 1921 Mappila Uprising as a response to the growing Salafi Wahabis movement in Kerala. The body witnessed an organisational division. There are two groups with the same name Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama existing now. They are Samastha EK group and Samastha AP group formed after the split in 1989.
The Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC) is an expatriate charity and volunteer organisation for Muslims from the Indian state of Kerala, formed in 1981. It was founded as an official organisation of the All India Muslim League (AIML) under Umar Bafakhy Thangal, and later merged with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Abdurrahiman Bafaqi Thangal (1905—1973), honorific Sayyid, title Ba Faqih, 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.
Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) is an Islamic organization in the state of Kerala founded in 1952. 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 Ummer Moulavi. Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen is considered as the successor of Kerala Muslim Aikhya 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.
Madayi Mosque is mosque at Pazhayangadi in Kannur district, northern Kerala. It is one of the oldest mosques in Kerala, with local legends dating back to 7th century AD. It is believed to have been established by Malik ibn Dinar and contains a block of white marble said to have been brought from Mecca by ibn Dinar. It is one of the several mosques around Pazhayangadi/Payangadi. It is situated on the banks of Kuppam River, which joins Valapattanam River at its estuary.
K. O. Aysha Bai, also spelled Ayesha Bai, was a Communist politician from south India. She was the first Deputy Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Aysha Bai was the first Muslim women to rise to public fame in modern Kerala. She was an aggressive advocate for the forward progress of Mappila women. She was also a pioneer organizer of Women's Societies.
Kaathib Thayyil Mohammed Kutty Musliyar, popularly known as K. M. Moulavi or K. M. Maulavi, was an Indian revolutionary. He was a leader of the Indian independence movement, Khilafat Movement, Muslim League and Islahi Movement from Malabar district. He was a religious scholar who promoted modern education, the Malayalam language, and Muslim women's education. He worked to uplift the Mappila community after the Malabar rebellion.
C. N. Ahmad Moulavi was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, best known as the translator of the first complete publication of Quran in Malayalam. He was the author of a number of books on Islam and was reported to have contributed to the propagation of education among the Muslims of Malabar region. A member of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi during the period 1959–64, Moulavi was honoured by the academy with the distinguished fellowship in 1989.
Pukkoya family of Panakkad is a Yemeni-origin sayyid (thangal) family based in present-day northern Kerala. The family, claiming descent from the family of Prophet Muhammad, is generally revered by the Sunni Shāfiʿī Kerala Muslims. The thangals remain highly respected as religious and political leaders amongst the Muslims of Kerala.
Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal is a sayyid (thangal) community leader and politician from Kerala, southern India. He currently serves as the Kerala State President, Indian Union Muslim League.
