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Settled foreign Muslims of Kerala were known as Mouros da Arabia/Mouros de Meca. [12] The Muslims of Southern and Central Kerala or the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore are known as Rowthers. Muslims in Kerala share a common language with the rest of the non-Muslim population and have a culture commonly regarded as the Malayali culture. [13]
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]
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
Historians do not rule out the possibility of Islam being introduced to Kerala as early as the seventh century CE. [17] [18] Kerala Muslims are generally referred to as the Mappilas. Mappilas are but one among the many communities that forms the Muslim population of Kerala. [13] [19] The first Indian mosque was built in 624 AD at Kodungallur.
He had occupied crucial positions in Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the official organization of Sunni scholars in Kerala. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was renowned south Indian Shafi scholar who was student of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi , founder of Sunni Barelvi movement .
The Thangal families are numerous in Kerala, all receive recognition, but some are considered as saints. [2] The Thangal identification brings much 'reverence and attention' in the Kerala Muslim community (which predominantly identifies with Shafi'i madhab). [6] Some individuals take advice from the Thangals on crucial matters. [3]
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.
Hindu-Muslim unity is strong there. The Muslim community is the largest in the Punnathala area, followed by the Hindu community. Among Muslims, Sunnis follow the Shafi'i school of thought. They believe in the Sunni principle of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah.They are part of the two Samasthas that lead it in Kerala.