K C Abdullah Moulavi [February 22, 1920- August 13, 1995] was a prominent Islamic scholar in modern Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. He has made tremendous contribution to the Islamic resurgence and Muslim educational reforms in Kerala. He was the former Ameer of Kerala chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...

. He has played major role in founding the Madhyamam Daily and Islahiya Association Chennamangallur. His literary contributions include books in Malayalam language which goes in depth on the description of Allah

Allah

Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...

 and Afterlife in the Quran.

Brief Biography

Born in Kodiyathur village of Kozhikode

Kozhikode

Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...

 District in Kerala. Primary education was in various mosques in nearby places. He graduated (M.F.B degree or Baqawi title) from Baqiyatuswalihath in Vellur

Vellur

Vellur is a village in the Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Vellur, also known as Vellore Nadu, is a pleasant verdant agricultural village.-Etymology:...

, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. Returning home, he served as Principal of Darul Uloom Arabic College in Vazhakkad

Vazhakkad

Vazhakkad is a village located on the bank of River Chaliyarin Eranad Thaluk, Malappuram district, state of Kerala, India. East and some north part of Vazhakkad boarering with River Chaliyar, South Cheakode and Pulikkal Panchayaths and West Vazhayur Grama Panchayath.-Educational...

 . Meanwhile, he acquired his degree of Afdalul Ulama from the University of Calicut and served as a teacher in Aliya Arabic College in Kasaragod

Kasaragod

Kasaragod is a town and a municipality in Kasaragod district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Kasaragod district as well as of Kasaragod Taluk...

. He served as the Ameer of Kerala Halqa of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind during 1959-1972, 1975–1982 and 1985–1990. He served prison terms during the Indo-Pak war of 1965 and the Emergency of 1975. He died on August 13, 1995

Major contributions to society

• Madhyamam Daily
• Islamic publishing house
  Islamic publishing house
  Islamic Publishing House is a leading publisher of Islamic literature in the state of Kerala, India . It was founded in 1945 as the official publication division of Jama’at-e-Islami Hind, Kerala chapter. Its headquarters is in Kozhikode, Kerala.-History:...
  
  
• Islahiya Association
• Prabodhanam
  Prabodhanam
  Prabodhanam is a weekly Islamic magazine published in Malayalam from Kozhikode in Kerala, India . This is one of the widely read Islamic Magazines in Kerala.It began as amonthly publication in 1949 but was later turned into a weekly in 1964. The magazine is officially affiliated to the Kerala...
  
  Weekly
• Majlisu Tha’leemil Islami, Kerala

Special contributions to Islamic Education in Kerala

He introduced many fundamental reforms in the religious education in Kerala. He is the proponent of the unique Arts and Islamic Courses in Islamic Colleges which blended Islamic studies to the university curriculum, which helped students to gain considerable knowledge in Islamic subjects while attaining a conventional university degree in Humanities. This educational pattern was widely accepted by other Muslim educational institutions in Kerala. The first Islamic institution for women with hostel facility, Madrasatul Banat at Chennamangallur(Calicut) was established in 1961, is also one of his remarkable contributions. He was the proponent Da’wa (Mission) courses which was intended to build specialists in spreading the word of Islam. From 1967 when Chennamangallur Islahiya Association was formed, until his death in 1995, the educational institutions under Islahiya Association were headed by him. He has also played a key role in the formation of Majlisu Tha’leemil Islami Kerala which revolutionised primary Islamic education in Kerala.

Books

• Prabodhanam Quranil (The Qur'an on Missionary Work)
• Allahu Qur’anil (The Qur'an on Allah)
• Paralokam Qur’anil (The Qur'an on Afterlife))
• Namaskarathinte Chaitanyam (The Spirit of Namaz)
• Nompinte Chaitanyam (The Spirit of Fasting)
• Prabodhanam Oru Mukhavura (Preface to Missionary Work)
• Jinnukalum and Malakkukalum (Jinns and Angels)
• Qadiyanisthinte Adiverukal (The Roots of Qadiyanism)
• Prabodhanathinte Pradhanyam(The Significance of Islamic Mission)