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Dakshina Kerala Jami-yyathul Ulama is the principal Sunni-Shafi'i and Hanafi scholarly body in southern Kerala. [1] The council administers mosques, institutes of higher religious learning and madrasas in southern Kerala districts of alappuzha, kottayam,idukki, pathanamthitta,kollam & trivandrum.
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
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]
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 ...
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]
The four Sunni Imams founded the four madhhab (schools of thought) recognized in Sunni Islam. While they agree on the foundational principles of fiqh according to the Sunni narrative, their interpretations of certain legal and practical matters differ, which led to the development of the four distinct madhhab.
Most of the Muslims of Kerala follow the traditional Shāfiʿī school of religious law (known in Kerala as the traditionalist 'Sunnis') while a large minority follow modern movements that developed within Sunni Islam. [168] [169] The latter section consists of majority Salafists (the Mujahids) and the minority Islamists (political Islam). [168 ...
Pages in category "Islam in Kerala" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...