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Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulama
Formation26 June 1926; 99 years ago (1926-06-26)[a]
FounderSayyid Abdul Rahman ba-Alavi Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal[b]
TypeSunni-Shafi'i scholarly body
Region served
General Secretary
Sheikh ul Jamia K. Ali Kutty Musliyar
President
Sayyid ul Ulama Sayed Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal
Affiliations
  • Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabhyasa Board
  • Sunni Yuvajana Sangham
  • Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Mudariseen
  • Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation
  • Samastha Kerala Sunni Bala Vedi
  • Sunni Mahallu Federation
  • Samastha Kerala Jam’eyyat ul-Mu’allimeen Central Council
Websitesamastha.info
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Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of EK Sunnis also known as Samastha, and EK Samastha,[2][3] is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala.[4][5][6] The body 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.[4]

History

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Kerala Muslims of the fundamentalist and puritanical views of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab (1703-1792), Salafism of Rashid Rida (1865-1935), Islamic modernism of Muhammad Abduh (1819-1905),[7] pan-Islamism of Jamaluddin Afghani (1939-1897), and the Tahreek e-Mujahideen in North India. The new ideologists first came out through the Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangham (group for unity among Kerala Muslims),[8] which was founded at Kodungallur of Cochin State in 1922 by leaders like K. M. Seethi Sahib, K. M. Maulavi, and EK Moulavi.[9]

It tried to bring the scattered and unorganised reformist activists together. Later, they formed an Ulama organisation, Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, at a two-day conference of Aikya Sangham held at Aluva in 1924.[8]

Samastha history 1924-2000s

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The Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama felt the need to organise to defend and protect Kerala’s Islamic tradition and to wage a revivalist movement against the new interpretations. Pangil Ahmed Kutty Musliyar,[10] who had already started counter campaigns against the ‘Wahhabi ideology’, along with some other scholars, met Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal, who was a Sufi Sheikh, to discuss creating an organisational movement to defend theirb version of Islam. Tangal suggested convening a meeting of scholars to discuss the suitable solution. In 1925,[11] some major ulama and other society leaders gathered at Calicut Valiya Juma Masjid and formed an ulama organisation after prolonged and serious discussions.

KP Muhammad Meeran Musliyar and Parol Hussain Moulawi[12] were named the President and Secretary of the organisation, respectively.

Formation

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Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama was formed on June 26, 1926 but it was officially registered on November 14, 1934,[13] as the government approved its bylaw, which was agreed upon after deep and wide scholarly discussions held in various Mushawara meets and in consultation with law experts. It promulgated the propagation of true Islam, impart of religious education and activities against superstitions and un-Islamic traditions as its primary and supreme objectives. Its bylaw also included encouragement for secular education compatible with religious beliefs, and calls for religious tolerance, interfaith friendship, peaceful existence and national progress. The registration Number is S1.1934/35[14] at office of the Kozhikode district registrar

Mushawara council

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A forty-member 'mushawara' is the high command body of the Sunni council.[15][16] As of 2020, the president was Sayed Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal.[17][18]

Structure

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Presidents

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Varakkal Mullokoya Thangal, Founding president of Samastha

100th anniversary

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Main article: 100th Anniversary of Samastha Kerala

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated the Samastha's 100th anniversary declaration conference at Bengaluru Palace grounds 28 January 2024.[20]

Notes

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  1. ^ Per EK Sunnis[1]
  2. ^ Per EK Sunnis[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "സമസ്തയുടെ ചരിത്രം". suprabhaatham (in Malayalam). 25 June 2024. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ Santhosh, R.; Visakh, M. S. (2020). "Muslim League in Kerala: Exploring the Question of 'Being Secular'". Economic and Political Weekly. 55 (7): 7–8.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Muhammad Abduh's contributions to modernity". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  8. ^ a b Sharafudeen, Shajeer. "Kerala muslim aikya Sanghom".
  9. ^ "1940 - തുഹ്‌ഫത്തുത്താലിബീൻ". 1940.
  10. ^ "An Exploration of Abdul Bari Musliyar al-Malaibari's Magnum Opus: Kithabu Kitāb Siḥāḥ al-Shaikhain". 6 February 2024.
  11. ^ Pattasseri, Noorudeen. "Samastha Kerala Jam'iathul Ulama: Defining Islamic discourses in Kerala through Ulama activism".
  12. ^ "പാറോല്‍ ഹുസൈന്‍ മൗലവി".
  13. ^ "Development and Modernisation of Religious Education in Kerala: Role of Samastha Kerala Jam'eyyat ul-Ulama" (PDF). etd.lib.jnu.ac.in.
  14. ^ "കോവിഡ് -19നിയന്ത്രണം പള്ളികളിൽആരാധനക്ക് ഇളവ്അ നുവദിക്കുന്നത് സംബന്ധിച്ച്" (PDF). www.mediaoneonline.com.
  15. ^ Naha, Abdul Latheef (18 January 2018). "Sunni Factions to Bury the Hatchet". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  16. ^ Alingal, Shafeeq (7 January 2018). "Kerala: League of Factions". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020.
  17. ^ Naha, Abdul Latheef (3 January 2018). "No action against Panakkad scions". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020.
  18. ^ "Aradhanalayangal Thurakkanam: Samastha". Media One. 3 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Resolution against Communism not with my consent: Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal". Mathrubhumi English. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 29 January 2024.
  20. ^ "Siddaramaiah praises educational activities of Samastha". 29 January 2024.
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