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Samastha of AP Sunnis claims to be the real Samastha. Over 8000 madrasas {{Clarify|date=July 2024}} are afflicted to Samastha of AP Sunnis while AP Sunnis also run educational institutions outside Kerala. 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>
Samastha of AP Sunnis claims to be the real Samastha. Over 8000 madrasas {{Clarify|date=July 2024}} are afflicted to Samastha of AP Sunnis while AP Sunnis also run educational institutions outside Kerala. 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>

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; secretaries [[Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari]], Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliar, Perodu Abdurahman Saqafi.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bureau |first=The Hindu |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>


== Population makeup ==
== Population makeup ==

Revision as of 12:25, 9 July 2024

Not to be confused with Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (of EK Sunnis) or All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama.

Jamiyyathul Ulama (AP Samastha)
Formation1989 [1]
FounderA. P. Aboobacker Musliyar
TypeSunni-Shafi'i scholarly council
General Secretary
Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar
President
E. Sulaiman Musliyar
Secretaries
Websitesamastha.in

Jamiyyathul Ulama (AP Samastha) of A. P. Sunnis, also known as AP Samastha,[2] is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala.[3][4][5][6] 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.[3] 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.[7][8]

Samastha of AP Sunnis claims to be the real Samastha. Over 8000 madrasas [clarification needed] are afflicted to Samastha of AP Sunnis while AP Sunnis also run educational institutions outside Kerala. AP and EK Sunnis have had dispute over the control of some mosques and madrasas in Malabar. EK Sunnis have had supported IUML whereas AP Sunnis have had supported LDF and CPM.[9] There have been talks for rapprochement between these two Sunni groups.[10]

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.

Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (of AP Sunnis), Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (of EK Sunnis), Dakshina Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama and Kerala Samsthna Jem-iyyathul Ulama are different factions of Sunnis in Kerala, while Dakshina Kerala Je-iyyathul Ulama is the dominant group in the southern part of the state.[11]

Ideological difference

Samastha 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.[3][6][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/after-mujahid-merger-call-for-sunni-unity/articleshow/56292036.cms
  2. ^ "Kanthapuram Samastha kicks off centenary celebrations". The Hindu. 31 December 2023. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Osella, Filippo; Osella, Caroline (2008). "Islamism and Social Reform in Kerala, South India" (PDF). Modern Asian Studies. 42 (2–3): 317–346. doi:10.1017/S0026749X07003198. S2CID 143932405. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2024 – via SOAS Research Online.
  4. ^ Santhosh, R.; Visakh, M. S. (2020). "Muslim League in Kerala: Exploring the Question of 'Being Secular'". Economic and Political Weekly. 55 (7): 7–8.
  5. ^ Kooria, Mahmood (2018). "An Ethno-History of Islamic Legal Texts". Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 7 (2): 313–338. doi:10.1093/ojlr/rwy034. ISSN 2047-0770.
  6. ^ a b "Kanthapuram Samastha kicks off centenary celebrations". The Hindu. 31 December 2023. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Kanthapuram Samastha kicks off centenary celebrations". The Hindu. 31 December 2023. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Sunni factions bury their differences". The Hindu. 12 February 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  9. ^ Alingal, Shafeeq (7 January 2018). "Kerala: League of Factions". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020.
  10. ^ Naha, Abdul Latheef (18 January 2018). "Sunni factions to bury the hatchet". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  11. ^ Service, Express News (4 July 2023). "By revisiting unity talks, Sunni groups look to bury differences". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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