Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal

{{Short description|Muslim community leader, scholar and politician from Kerala (1947–2022)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Habib

| name = Hyder Ali AlHusseini Ba Alavi

| image = Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal BNC.jpg

| caption =Habib Hyderali Husseini (2015)

| office = Kerala State President, Indian Union Muslim League

| term_start = 2009

| term_end = 2022

| office1 = Chairman, National Political Advisory Committee, Indian Union Muslim League

| termstart1 =

| office2 = Vice President, Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama'

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1947|06|15}}

| birth_place = Panakkad, Malabar, British India

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|03|06|1947|06|15}}

| death_place = Angamaly, Ernakulam

| nationality = Indian

| party = Indian Union Muslim League

| spouse =

| relations = * Syed Muhammadali Shihab Thangal (brother)

• Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal (brother)
• Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal (brother)
• Syed Abbas Ali Shihab Thangal (brother)

| children = Syed Mueen Ali Shihab Thangal

[ [Sayyid Naeemali Shihab Thangal ]]

| parents = PMSA Pookkoya Thangal (father)

| residence = Panakkad (Malappuram)

| education = Faizy (Post Graduate, Arabic and Islamic Sharīʿah)

| alma_mater = Jami'a Nooriyya Arabiyya Pattikkad (Perinthalmanna)

| occupation = * Community leader

• Islamic scholar
• Politician

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}}

Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal or Hyder Ali AlHusseini Ba Alvi (15 June 1947 – 6 March 2022) 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.{{Cite web |title=National Political Advisory Committee |url=http://iuml.com/nationalcommittees.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225142153/http://iuml.com/nationalcommittees.html |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=2019-01-09 |website=Indian Union Muslim League (official website)}} He was also the vice president of the Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama' (E. K. faction), the principal Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in Kerala.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2018-01-18 |title=Samastha-Thangal Family Row Settled |work=The Times of India |publication-place=Kozhikode |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/samastha-thangal-family-row-settled/articleshow/62347851.cms |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620082425/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/samastha-thangal-family-row-settled/articleshow/62347851.cms |archive-date=20 June 2020 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=IUML Leader Panakkad Sayyid Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal Laid to Rest |work=OnManorama |publisher=Malayala Manorama |location=Kottayam |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/03/06/iuml-state-president-panakkad-sayed-hyderali-thangal-dies.html}}

Hyderali Thangal was a member of the Pukkoya family of Panakkad (north Kerala). He was the third son of P. M. S. A. Pookkoya Thangal (1913 – 1975) and the younger brother of Sayed Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal and Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal.{{Cite web |last=Nijeesh |first=T. P. |date=2012-04-03 |title=Panakkad Family to Figure in History of Syeds |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Panakkad-family-to-figure-in-history-of-Syeds/articleshow/12512913.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116175442/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Panakkad-family-to-figure-in-history-of-Syeds/articleshow/12512913.cms |archive-date=16 January 2019 |access-date=2019-01-09 |website=The Times of India |publication-place=Malappuram}} He was the founding president of Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (S.K.S. S. F.), the student wing of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', in 1973. He graduated from Jami'a Nooriyya, Perinthalmanna in 1989. He led the Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (S. Y. S.), the youth wing of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, and later served the Malappuram District President, Indian Union Muslim League for around two decades.{{Cite news |last=Ali |first=Firoz |date=7 March 2022 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal Managed to Bridge Differences Between League and Samastha |work=OnManorama |publisher=Malayala Manorama |location=Kottayam |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/03/07/hyderali-shihab-thangal-leader-of-league-samastha-kerala.html}}

Hyderali Thangal was elected as the successor to Mohammed Ali Thangal as the Kerala State President of Indian Union Muslim League in 2009.{{Cite news |date=15 August 2009 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal, Chief of IUML in Kerala |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/Hyderali-Shihab-Thangal-chief-of-IUML-in-Kerala/article16875145.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620083115/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/Hyderali-Shihab-Thangal-chief-of-IUML-in-Kerala/article16875145.ece |archive-date=2020-06-20}} After Pookkoya Thangal, Hyderali Thangal was the only leader to head both the Muslim League and the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama simultaneously. He also served as the chairman of Kerala Wakf Board. He was also the founding chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University, Chemmad.{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal Passes Away |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hyderali-shihab-thangal-passes-away/article65198530.ece}}

He died at the Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 74.{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=IUML Leader Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal, 74, Passes Away |language= |work=Mathrubhumi |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/iuml-leader-sayed-hyderali-shihab-thangal-passes-away-1.7319597 |access-date=}} Shashi Tharoor, the diplomat-turned-politician, described the Thangal as a "diminutive giant of Kerala politics" as he tweeted about his death.{{Cite web |date=6 March 2022 |title=Muslim League leader Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal Dies at 74 |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2022/03/06/kerala-muslim-league-leader-hyder-ali-shihab-thangal-dies-at-74.html |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=The Week Magazine |language=}}