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Most of the Muslims of Kerala follow Sunni Islam of Shāfiʿī school of religious law (known in Kerala as the traditionalist 'Sunnis') while a large minority follow modern movements that developed within Sunni Islam. [8] [9] The latter section consists of majority Salafists (the Mujahids) and the minority Islamists. Both the traditional Sunnis ...
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]
Islam is the second-largest practiced religion in Kerala (26.56%), only surpassed by Hinduism. [7] The calculated Muslim population (Indian Census, 2011) in Kerala state is 8,873,472. [8] [9] Most of the Muslims in Kerala follow the Shāfiʿī School (Sunni Islam), followed by Salafi movement. [10]
Samastha began in 1926 to counter Vakkom Moulavi's Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangam [14] —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
The Mujahid movement laid the foundations of Islamic renaissance in Kerala by campaigning against corrupted practices of the Sufi orders, superstitions, false beliefs, polytheism etc., and called for the revival of true Islamic practices to the Muslim community in Kerala which had until then been severely lacking in crucial aspects of religious ...
Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, officially known as Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad [b] [3] [4] (born 22 March 1931) [1] [a], is the tenth and current Grand Mufti of India. [5] [6] and General Secretary of the All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama (the Indian Muslim Scholars Association) and General Secretary of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of AP Sunnis.
Ethnic group Malabar Muslims of Kerala and Lakshadweep A rebuilt structure of the old Cheraman Juma Mosque, Kodungallur Total population c. 6 million (2011) Regions with significant populations Kerala, Lakshadweep, Tulu Nadu, Kodagu, States of Persian Gulf Languages Malayalam (Arabi Malayalam) [7] Religion Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups Beary, Kodava Maaple, Malayalis, Marakkars, Sri Lankan ...
[17] [18] Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh and Afghanistan). It is the second largest religion in India and third largest in Sri Lanka and Nepal. On the Indian subcontinent, Islam first appeared in the southwestern tip of the peninsula, in today's Kerala state.