Ullal Thangal is a Sunni Muslim

Muslim

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 scholar from the India

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n state of Kerala

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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....

, South India

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. He is current President of Samastha Kerala Sunni Jam'iyyathul Ulama (Kanthapuram), the organization of scholars and clerics under A. P. Sunni

A. P. Sunni

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 faction of Muslims of 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....

. Known as the Crown Among the Clerics ("Taj-ul Ulama"), Ullal Thangal was a prominent member of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama

Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama

Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama is the religious organisation of E. K. Sunni faction Muslim scholars and clerics of the Indian state of Kerala. E. K. Sunni is one of the powerful traditional Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala belonging to Sunni-Shafi school of law...

before the split of the Sunnis in 1989.