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Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of A. P. Sunnis is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala.^[1][2][3][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.^[1] 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.^[5][6]

A forty-member also known as the 'mushawara' functions a high command body.^[7][8] As of December 2023 the body includes general secretary Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar; president E. Sulaiman Musliar; vice president Syed Attakoya Thangal; secretaries Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari, Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliar, Perodu Abdurahman Saqafi.^[9]

Population makeup

Traditionally Muslims of Kerala are Sunnis, predominantly Shafi'is where around two-thirds of the Muslim population is AP and EK Sunnis, both 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.^[1][4][6]

Ideological difference

AP and EK Sunnis, both of which emerged in 1989 due to disagreement in Samastha, an organization began in 1926 to counter the Vakkam Moulavi's Aikya Sangam—the precursor of KNM and the wider Mujahid movement. Only traditionalist Sunnis are called Sunnis in Kerala in contrast to the reformist ones. 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.

See also

• Samastha Kerala Je-iyyathul Ulama (of EK Sunnis)

References