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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 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]
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.
Historians do not rule out the possibility of Islam being introduced to Kerala as early as the seventh century CE. [16] [17] Kerala Muslims are generally referred to as the Mappilas. Mappilas are but one among the many communities that forms the Muslim population of Kerala. [12] [18] The first Indian mosque was built in 624 AD at Kodungallur.
the moral examples set by important Islamic personalities (such as the four rightly guided caliphs for Sunni Muslims); [15] works on Adab (i.e. etiquette, manners); [15] "philosophical reflection" by the school of Islam known as the Mu`tazilites and others; "works of Greek ethicists", (which were translated into Arabic); [15]
Tawassul is a fundamental belief of all traditional Sunni movements. The belief is that Muhammad helps in this life and in the afterlife. [66] According to this doctrine, God helps the living through Muhammad. Sunni Muslims of the Barelvi movement believe that any ability that Muhammad has to help others is from God.
Sunni Muslims accept the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim as the most authentic , and while accepting all hadiths verified as authentic, grant a slightly lesser status to the collections of other recorders. Four other hadith collections are also held in particular reverence by Sunni Muslims, making a total of six: