Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)
{{Distinguish|Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama|All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama}}
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| name = Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulama
| formation = {{start date and age|1926|06|26|p=y|df=yes}}{{efn|Per AP Sunnis}}
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| founder = Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal{{efn|Per AP Sunnis{{cite magazine |last1=Maannoor |first1=Zainudheen Irfani |others= |title=മുസ്ലിം നവോത്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ കേരള വിശേഷങ്ങൾ |script-title=ml: Malayalam |trans-title=Kerala news of Muslim renaissance |url=https://sunnivoice.net/2017-issues/?amp=1 |date=1–15 March 2017 |url-access= |url-status= |format= |department= |magazine=Sunni Voice Fortnightly |type= |series= |language=ml |edition= |location= |publisher= |publication-date= |volume= |issue= |page=19 |pages= |at= |no-pp= |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |doi-broken-date= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |via=sunnivoice.net |quote= |postscript= |ref=}}}}
| type = Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name = E. Sulaiman Musliyar
| gen_sec = Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar
| leader_title2 = Treasurer
| leader_name2 = Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar
| leader_title3 = Secretaries
| leader_name3 = *Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari
| leader_title4 = Vice Presidents
| leader_name4 = *Sayyid Ali Bafaqi Thangal
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Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of AP Sunnis, also known as Samastha{{Cite web |date=2024-07-12 |title=Increase in suicides linked to ignorance, says Kanthapuram |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/increase-in-suicides-linked-to-ignorance-says-kanthapuram-1.9718644 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=mathrubhumi.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713042736/https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/increase-in-suicides-linked-to-ignorance-says-kanthapuram-1.9718644 |archive-date=2024-07-13 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-01-28 |title=No freedom for Islamic activities in any country like that in India, says Keralite Muslim scholar |url=https://theprint.in/india/no-freedom-for-islamic-activities-in-any-country-like-that-in-india-says-keralite-muslim-scholar/1340475/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=ThePrint |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726160345/https://theprint.in/india/no-freedom-for-islamic-activities-in-any-country-like-that-in-india-says-keralite-muslim-scholar/1340475/ |archive-date=2024-07-26 |language=en}} and AP Samastha,{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2023-12-31 |title=Kanthapuram Samastha kicks off centenary celebrations |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kanthapuram-samastha-kicks-off-centenary-celebrations/article67692731.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114162725/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kanthapuram-samastha-kicks-off-centenary-celebrations/article67692731.ece |archive-date=2024-01-14 |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}} is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala.{{Cite journal |last1=Osella |first1=Filippo |last2=Osella |first2=Caroline |date=2008 |title=Islamism and Social Reform in Kerala, South India |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/5176/1/osella_ModAsianStuds.PDF |via=SOAS Research Online |journal=Modern Asian Studies |language= |volume=42 |issue=2–3 |pages=317–346 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X07003198 |s2cid-access=free |s2cid=143932405 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324084357/https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/5176/1/osella_ModAsianStuds.PDF |archive-date= Mar 24, 2024 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Santhosh |first1=R. |last2=Visakh |first2=M. S. |date=2020 |title=Muslim League in Kerala: Exploring the Question of 'Being Secular' |url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/7/special-articles/muslim-league-kerala.html |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |language= |volume=55 |issue=7 |pages=7–8}}{{Cite journal |last=Kooria |first=Mahmood |date=2018 |title=An Ethno-History of Islamic Legal Texts |url=https://academic.oup.com/ojlr/article/7/2/313/5105825 |journal=Oxford Journal of Law and Religion |language= |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=313–338 |doi=10.1093/ojlr/rwy034 |issn=2047-0770}} 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. 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.{{Cite news |date=2022-02-12 |title=Sunni factions bury their differences |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sunni-factions-bury-their-differences/article38419837.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828182004/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sunni-factions-bury-their-differences/article38419837.ece |archive-date=2023-08-28 |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}
Similar to EK Sunnis, a forty-member council also known as the 'mushawara' functions a high command body of AP Sunnis.{{Cite news |last=Naha |first=Abdul Latheef |date=2018-01-18 |title=Sunni factions to bury the hatchet |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sunni-factions-to-bury-the-hatchet/article22466086.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528192856/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sunni-factions-to-bury-the-hatchet/article22466086.ece |archive-date=2023-05-28 |access-date=2024-07-07 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite news |last=Alingal |first=Shafeeq |date=2018-01-07 |title=Kerala: League of Factions |work=The New Indian Express |location= |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/jan/07/kerala-league-of-factions-1746566.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611054152/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/jan/07/kerala-league-of-factions-1746566.html |archive-date=2020-06-11 |access-date= }} 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; treasurer Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar;{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-02-23 |title=Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama: Kanthapuram again general secretary; E. Sulaiman Musliyar president |url=https://www.thejasnews.com/sublead/samastha-kerala-jamiyyathul-ulama-kanthapuram-again-general-secretary-228627 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307223416/https://www.thejasnews.com/sublead/samastha-kerala-jamiyyathul-ulama-kanthapuram-again-general-secretary-228627 |archive-date=2024-03-07 |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=www.thejasnews.com |language=ml}} secretaries Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari, Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliyar and Perod Abdurahman Saqafi.
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.
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.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-07-04 |title=By revisiting unity talks, Sunni groups look to bury differences |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Jul/04/by-revisiting-unity-talks-sunni-groups-look-to-bury-differences-2591117.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707121834/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Jul/04/by-revisiting-unity-talks-sunni-groups-look-to-bury-differences-2591117.html |archive-date=2024-07-07 |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}
Ideological difference
Samastha began in 1926 to counter Vakkom Moulavi's Kerala Muslim 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. 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.
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.{{Cite web |last=Musliyar |first=Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker |date=2024-06-26 |title=Samastha: legacy of a century |url=https://www.sirajlive.com/samasta-legacy-of-the-century.html?s |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720095416/https://www.sirajlive.com/samasta-legacy-of-the-century.html?s |archive-date=2024-07-20 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Sirajlive.com |language=ml}}
=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.
=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.
Affiliated entities
Samastha of AP Sunnis have several affiliated entities.{{Cite journal |last=Thadathil |first=Hashim |date=2020 |title=Constructing Authenticity in Discourse(s): Debates among the Mappila Muslims of Malabar, South India |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27076308 |journal=Asian Journal of Social Science |volume=48 |issue=5/6 |pages=449–467 |doi=10.1163/15685314-04805007 |jstor=27076308 |issn=1568-4849}} They include:
- Kerala Muslim Jama'ath
- Sunni Management Association (SMA)
- Educational board – Samastha Kerala Sunni Vidhyabhyasa Board
- Madrasa teachers' association – Sunni Jam-iyyathul Muallimeen (SJM){{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Action plan against drugs through madrasas |url=https://www.sirajlive.com/action-plan-against-drunkenness-by-madrasahs.html?s |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710072842/https://www.sirajlive.com/action-plan-against-drunkenness-by-madrasahs.html?s |archive-date=2024-07-10 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Sirajlive.com |language=ml}}
- Youth wing – Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (SYS)
- Student wing – Sunni Students Federation (SSF)
- Jamiathul Hind
Other entities of AP Sunnis
= Organisations=
- Scholarly bodies
- All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-11-21 |title=Kanthapuram A P Muhammad Musliar passes away at 72 |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2022/Nov/21/kanthapuram-a-p-muhammad-musliar-passes-away-at-72-2520414.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710131924/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2022/Nov/21/kanthapuram-a-p-muhammad-musliar-passes-away-at-72-2520414.html |archive-date=2024-07-10 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ameerudheen |first=T. A. |date=2018-01-23 |title=Big deal: Merger of two factions of a Muslim group could realign political forces in Kerala |url=https://scroll.in/article/865455/big-deal-merger-of-two-factions-of-a-muslim-group-could-realign-political-forces-in-kerala |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328212107/https://scroll.in/article/865455/big-deal-merger-of-two-factions-of-a-muslim-group-could-realign-political-forces-in-kerala |archive-date=2024-03-28 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2024-06-27 |title=Publish community representation data in key posts: Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musaliyar |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/publish-community-representation-data-in-key-posts-kanthapuram-ap-aboobacker-musaliyar/articleshow/111302160.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710114612/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/publish-community-representation-data-in-key-posts-kanthapuram-ap-aboobacker-musaliyar/articleshow/111302160.cms |archive-date=2024-07-10 |access-date=2024-07-15 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}{{Cite web |date=2011-04-28 |title=Dubai Grand Mufti praises religious tolerance in India |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/375822 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710121340/https://www.arabnews.com/node/375822 |archive-date=2024-07-10 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Arab News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-03-06 |title=Kerala's Warring Sunni Groups Now in Tussle Over Appointment of First South Indian as Grand Mufti of Muslims |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/ek-faction-calls-appointment-of-ap-factions-musliyar-as-grand-mufti-a-farce-says-will-elect-a-new-one-2058557.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122090327/https://www.news18.com/news/india/ek-faction-calls-appointment-of-ap-factions-musliyar-as-grand-mufti-a-farce-says-will-elect-a-new-one-2058557.html |archive-date=2022-11-22 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=News18 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Samastha will develop 10,000 model villages in three years, says Kanthapuram |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/12/31/samatha-kerala-jem-iyyathul-ulama-to-develop-10000-model-villages-says-kanthapuram.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710115538/https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/12/31/samatha-kerala-jem-iyyathul-ulama-to-develop-10000-model-villages-says-kanthapuram.amp.html |archive-date=2024-07-10 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.onmanorama.com}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Samastha is a model of co-existence: Kanthapuram |url=https://keralakaumudi.com/news/news.php?id=1095059&u=local-news-kozhikode |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715181809/https://keralakaumudi.com/news/news.php?id=1095059&u=local-news-kozhikode |archive-date=2024-07-15 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Keralakaumudi Daily |language=en}}
- Children's wing
- Sunni Bala Sangham (SBS)
= Periodicals =
- Siraj
- Risala{{Cite web |title=Risala weekly |url=https://ssfkerala.org/risala/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708203952/https://ssfkerala.org/risala/ |archive-date=2024-07-08 |access-date=2024-07-08 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-01-29 |title=Muslims in India have more religious freedom: Sunni leader |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Jan/29/muslims-in-india-have-more-religious-freedom-sunni-leader-2542318.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131005828/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/Jan/29/muslims-in-india-have-more-religious-freedom-sunni-leader-2542318.html |archive-date=2023-01-31 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}
- Sunni Voice{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Sunni Voice campaign activities to begin on sixth |url=https://www.sirajlive.com/2013/11/05/65482.html?s |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708204943/https://www.sirajlive.com/2013/11/05/65482.html?s |archive-date=2024-07-08 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Sirajlive.com |language=ml}}{{Cite web |title=About us – SUNNIVOICE |date=21 August 2013 |url=https://sunnivoice.net/about-us/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627061941/https://sunnivoice.net/about-us/?amp=1 |archive-date=2024-06-27 |access-date=2024-07-09 |language=en-US}}
- Kusumam
- Sunnath{{Cite web |title=Samastha Kerala Sunni Jam-iyyathul Muallimeen |url=https://sjmindia.org/#collapse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502070553/https://sjmindia.org/#collapse |archive-date=2024-05-02 |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=sjmindia.org}}
= Notable institutions =
See also
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