Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal or Hyder Ali AlHusseini Ba Alvi (15 June 1947 – 6 March 2022) was a

sayyid ''Sayyid'' is an honorific title of Hasanid and Husaynid lineage, recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and Ali's sons Hasan ibn Ali, Hasan and Husayn ibn Ali, Husayn. The title may also refer ...

( thangal) community leader and religious scholar from

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

, southern India who was the Kerala State President and chairman, national political advisory committee,

Indian Union Muslim League Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the IUML or Muslim League) is a political party primarily based in Kerala. It is recognised as a List of political parties in India, State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. After the ...

from 2009 to 2022. He was also the vice president of the Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama' (E. K. faction), the principal

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scholarly body in

. Hyderali Thangal was a member of the Pukkoya family of

Panakkad Panakkad is a small town and Village in Malappuram municipality in the state of Kerala, India. It is located on the banks of Kadalundippuzha river. Pukkoya family of Panakkad, Panakkad Thangal family resides in this village. Panakkad serves as o ...

(north Kerala). He was the third son of P. M. S. A. Pookkoya Thangal (1913 – 1975) and the younger brother of Sayed Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal and

Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal Sayed Umar Ali Shihab Thangal was an Islamic-Political community leader, Islamic scholar and politician from Kerala, India. In Kodappanakkal Family of Panakkad. Brother of Sayed Muhammed Ali Shihab Thangal. And the second eldest son of Pooko ...

. He was the founding president of

Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) is the student wing of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, scholarly body in Kerala. The largest Islamic students organization of India. The organisation is headquartered at Kozhikode K ...

(S.K.S. S. F.), the student wing of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', in 1973. He graduated from Jami'a Nooriyya,

Perinthalmanna Perinthalmanna is a major town and municipality in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. It serves as the administrative centre for the Perinthalmanna taluk, as well as a List of revenue divisions of Kerala, revenue division, a community developm ...

in 1989. He led the Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (S. Y. S.), the youth wing of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, and later served the Malappuram District President,

for around two decades. Hyderali Thangal was elected as the successor to Mohammed Ali Thangal as the Kerala State President of

in 2009. After Pookkoya Thangal, Hyderali Thangal was the only leader to head both the Muslim League and the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama simultaneously. He also served as the chairman of Kerala Wakf Board. He was also the founding chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University, Chemmad. He died at the Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 74. Shashi Tharoor, the diplomat-turned-politician, described the Thangal as a "diminutive giant of Kerala politics" as he tweeted about his death.

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