Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya, known with the honorific Sayyid, suffixed Thangal, is an Islamic scholar from
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a 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 regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
, India. He serves as President,
Samastha Kerala Jem'iyyathul Ulema, the body of
Sunni
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Shafi'i
The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...
scholars in northern Kerala.
He succeeded Kumaramputhur A. P. Muhammed Musliyar as the president of the Samastha in 2016.
References
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Malayali people
Indian Islamic religious leaders
People from Malappuram district
People from Kasaragod district
Shafi'is
Indian Sunni Muslims
1957 births
Living people
Kerala Sunni-Shafi'i scholars
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