Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| founder = [[Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar]]

| type = [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]-[[Shafi'i school|Shafi'i]] scholarly council

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'''Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)''' of A. P. Sunnis, also known as ''' Samastha (AP Faction)'''<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /> and '''AP Samastha''',<ref name=":6">{{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}}</ref> is a [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]-[[Shafi‘i|Shafi'i]] Muslim scholarly body in [[Kerala]].<ref name=":1">{{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 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":56">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> The council administers [[Shafi'i school|Shafi'ite]] mosques, institutes of higher religious learning (the equivalent of north Indian [[madrasa]]s) and madrasas (institutions where children receive basic [[Islam|Islamic education]]) in [[India]].<ref name=":1" /> There are two organisations known as Samastha, one named after [[E. K. Aboobacker Musliyar]] and the other after Kanthapuram [[Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar|A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar]], both of which emerged in 1989, due to organisational disagreement in Samastha.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{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}}</ref>

~~Samastha of AP Sunnis claims to be the real Samastha. AP and EK Sunnis have had dispute over the control of some mosques and madrasas in Malabar.~~ EK Sunnis have had supported [[Indian Union Muslim League|IUML]] whereas AP Sunnis have had supported [[Left Democratic Front|LDF]] and CPM.<ref name=":1322">{{Cite news |last=Alingal |first=Shafeeq |date=2018-01-07 |title=Kerala: League of Factions |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= |work=The New Indian Express |location=}}</ref> There have been talks for rapprochement between these two Sunni groups.<ref name=":4">{{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}}</ref> As of 26 June 2023 there are around 10435 madrasas{{clarify|date=August 2024}} in [[India]] under Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction).<ref name=":7" />

Similar to EK Sunnis, a forty-member council also known as the 'mushawara' functions a high command body of AP Sunnis.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":132">{{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= }}</ref> As of December 2023 the council includes general secretary [[Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar]]; president E. Sulaiman Musliar; vice president Syed Attakoya Thangal; treasurer Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar;<ref name=":5">{{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}}</ref> secretaries [[Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari]], Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliar and Perod Abdurahman Saqafi;<ref>{{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}}</ref> vice presidents Syyid Ali Bafaqi Thangal, P. A. Aidrus Muslyar Kollam and K. S. Attakoya Thangal Kumbol.<ref name=":5" />

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== See also ==

* [[Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama]] ~~(EK faction)~~

* [[All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama]]

* [[Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar]]