Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar

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Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (شيخ ابوبكر أحمد)
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Born	(1939-03-22) 22 March 1939 (age 85) Kanthapuram, Kozhikode District, Kerala, India.
Residence	Kozhikode District,
Occupation	Religious Leader , General Secretary, All India Sunni Jam-Iyyathul Ulema.
Known for	Religious & Social activities
Website	http://www.kanthapuram.com/eng/

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Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (Malayalam: കാന്തപുരം എ.പി. അബൂബക്കര്‍ മുസ്ലിയാര്‍, born Aboobacker Ahmed) is the leader of one of the traditionalist Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala, India. Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musalyar is known for his professionalism and expediency.

Shaikh Aboobackar Ahmad is the General Secretary of the All India Muslim Scholars Association and founder and Vice Chancellor of Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya (Sunni Cultural Centre), Karanthur, Kozhikode, Kerala. He is also chief patron of the Sunni Youth Society and General Secretary, Jamiat Ulema (Kerala)

Biography

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Born in Kanthapuram, a village in Calicut District of Kerala, on 22 March 1939, Kanthapuram hails from a mediocre peasant family of 'Alangam Poyil', the much popular and better known "A.P." stands for this. His father, Mouthariyil Ahmed Haji, was very pious and so was his mother, Kunheema Hajjumma, who was the daughter of Kuttoosa Molla, a teacher of Qur-An in the locality of Mangad, where reaches the family routes of his father too. He has two brothers and three sisters. His father died when he was twelve. Zainab is the wife and he has six children, namely, A.P. Abdul Hakeem Azhari, Maymoona, Hafsa, Sakeena, Rayhana, and Najma Firdousi. C. Muhammed Faizee, Abdul Bari Musliyar, Muhmmed Koya Saqafi and Obeidullah Saqafi are his in-laws.

He completed his elementary studies from A.M.L.P. School of Kanathapuram, where both Islamic and public instruction system co existed. Later he completed his higher Elementary education.

Kanthapuram completed his course in Qur'An studies from Vennakkode Abdulla Musliyar, who was a scholar and qari'a, (one who recites Qur An phonetically). He persuaded his studies in the Darses (the form of schools exist in mosques for religious and spiritual education) of Kanthapuram, Vavad, Kolikkal, Chaliyam and Thalakkadathur. He was awarded the degree of Moulavi Fadhil Baqavi from the renowned Islamic study centre of Baqiyath Swalihath, Vellore, in 1963. Sheikh Hassan Hazrath, Muhammed Abubakkar Hazrath, O.K. Zainudheen Kutty Musliyar, Puthoor Abdulla Musliyar, Kizhakoth Abdul Hameed Musliyar, Vavad Pocker Kutty Musliyar, Kuttikkattor Bichali Musliyar are some of his famous teachers in different institutions and disciplines.

The Leader:

He brought about a good social status and dignity for the religious scholars with his active interference in the society. He became a member of the Central Mushawara of Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulema in 1974, followed by the office secretary, before becoming the joint secretary of the Samastha. He was a member of the committee, which was appointed to expand the organization in all India level in 1976. He held the designation of the general secretary of Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Sangham, (S.Y.S.) from 1975 to 1996, and he was the president of the organization during the tenure of 1996- 2004. Presently, Kanthapuram is the Chairman of the Supreme Council of S.Y.S. He also served as the member of Hajj committee of Kerala and Chairman to the Editorial board of the Arabic Text Books of Govt. Schools of Kerala.

He splited samastha kerala jamiyathul ulama the largest muslim body in the state, and formed sunni jamiyathul ulama, and currently he is the general secretary of the organistation.In 1993, when the All India Jam-iyyathul Ulema was set up, Kanthapuram became the General Secretary and in the same year he was endorsed as the Consortium Qasi of Calicut.Besides these, Kanthapuram is the treasurer of Samastha Kerala Sunni Education Board and General Secretary of the famous Markazu-ssaquafathi-ssuniyya or The Sunni Markaz.

The debates and dialogues of Kanthapuram is very famous especially against those sects of the Muslims who emerged against the puritan nature of Islam and the teachings of Qur-An. The debates of Kuttichira, Ayiroor, Kuttoor, Pattambi, Pulikkal, Valiyaparambu, Kottappuram etc. with Kanthapuram in lead, was surely a blow to these sectarians.

In the post independent India, where illiteracy and poverty were the ruling factors as the balance sheet of the colonial rule, Kanthapuram began his revivalism, keeping in mind the social and educational uplifting of the downtrodden class including that of the Muslims. He visualized and translated into action farsighted projects in order to change the social anarchy and educational backwardness of the Muslims, which were prevailing in the Muslim society after the 1921 Malabar Mutiny. Kanthapuram is the visionary, founder and founder General Secretary of Markazu-ssaquafathi-ssuniyya, which is a world famous educational consortium, including that of Orphanages, Vocational Training Centers, School of Islamic Shariah, School of Qur-An Learning, Engineering College, English Medium Educational Institutes, International Public Schools, Women's Educational Centers, Hospitals and Commercial Complexes. Apart from this, Kanthapuram serves as the chief patron and Chairman of about 300 Educational Institutions, which are spread all over India. The Islamic Educational Board, headed by Kanathapuram runs more than ten thousand Madrassas, which provides religious education up to the secondary level.

Focusing his attention on the suppressed and sidelined population, he felt that the need of the hour is to provide proper education to lift them up from all type of inhibition thus giving them all round social development. He pragmatically proved the concept of education by the very resolute principle of Modern education in any branch, backed by moral traditions and religious values.

A Social Reformer:

Those different orphanages run by him adopt the poor and orphan students of either sex and provide them with free food, accommodation and education. They are supported until they complete higher education and attain a self-stand. The Thurkiyya Orphanage, in the Markaz campus Karanthur, alone shelters more than 10000 students. Markaz do have projects to protect and look after those men who are affected by natural calamities and riots. Those deprived and orphaned due to the earthquake in Andaman & Nicobar Islands and the suburban provinces of India and Pakistan, are educationally fed in Markaz. Markaz shelters and provides with education to more than 600 Kashmiri students, who are either orphaned or denied of education because of the endless and year long fights. Kanthapuram is famous in India and more in Arab countries by the title "Abul Aytam", meaning 'the Father of Orphans', for the services he rendered to the orphans and destitute.

Books and literary works

As a writer in Arabic, Urdu and Malayalam in the leading journals, Kanthapuram has authored some scholarly studies. He is well conversant in Arabic, English, Urdu, Tamil and Malayalam.

To name some of the books written by him are:

Thoughts of the Muslim World.
An Introduction to the Study of Islam.
The Hajj
The American Diary.
The Holy Prophets
Congregational Prayer in Islam
Women and the Friday Prayer
Thareeqat- A Study
Ismathul Ambiya (Arabic)
Idhharul Farahi Va Ssuroor (Arabic)
Assiyasathul Islamiyya (Arabic)
Thaleemul Aqabir (Arabic)
Al Ithibaau Wal Isthidaau (Arabic)
Al Wahdathal Islamiyya (Arabic)
Riyaalu Twalibeen (Arabic)
Failaanul Musalsila (Arabic)

Award and facilitations

Indian Islamic Centre Award 2000 for the best social cultural and educational worker in India.
He was named among "500 Most Influential Muslims in the world" in 2009 and 2011. (http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/Kavakci_500.pdf)
He was awarded with the “Shaik Muhiyudheen Abdul Khadar Jeelani Award” in 2009
The Ras-Al Khaima Islamic Academy Award for the best Social Worker, in 1992.
The Indian Islamic Centre Award in recognition of the best Educational and Social Services.
Hamil Al Ghait International Holy Quran Award, 2005.
The first MACC- U.A. E. Award for the best Indo-Arab Islamic Personality, 2006.

India's largest mosque

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India's largest mosque is being built in Kozhikkode under the patronage of Kanthapuram, named Masjide Asaar, this will also have an Islamic Museum to keep a strand of hair that has been alleged to be that of Muhammad and other holy remains, According to him, it was Shaikh Ahmad Al Khazraji, son of Shaikh Muhammed Al Khazraji, former Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, United Arab Emirates, who had handed over one of the “holy hair” to Markaz during its last annual convocation conference in January 2011 which was witnessed by thousands of its followers.

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