Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal

Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal
Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukokya Thangal in Abu Dhabi (2014).
President Samastha
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 January 2017
Preceded by	Kumaramputhur A. P. Muhammed Musliyar
Chairman Suprabhaatham
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2017
Preceded by	Kottumala Bappu Musliyar
Personal details
Born	Cherumukku, Tirurangadi, Malappuram District
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Islamic scholar

Syed Muhammad Jiffiri Muthukoya Thangal, also known as Syed Jifri Muthukoya Thangal is the current President, Samastha and he is an Islamic scholar, Teacher, religious leader and Qazi. He is an Islamic scholar from Kerala, India. He serves as President, Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, the body of Sunni-Shafi'i scholars in northern Kerala. Thangal is the 11th president of the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama.

Personal life

Jifri Muthukkoya was born in March 1957 at Matrbhavanam in Irumpuchola, Malappuram district as the son of Sayed Husain Jifri Pookunjikkoya Thangal and Fathima Cheri Biwi Jamalullaili. His wife is Fathwimath Muth Biwi, daughter of S.K.K Thangal Jamalullaili, Chemmad Kariparamba. Children: Jafar Swadiq Thangal, Twaha Hussain, Najwa Jifri. He is notable as the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, one of the dominant Sunni scholars' organizations in Kerala. Also known as the Principal of the Joint Muslim Jamaat Qasi and Arabic College. Homeland in Cherumuk village near Thirurangadi in Malappuram district , He is Jiffiri family, the descendants of Syed Hussein Jiffiri who arrived from Yemen in AD 1823.

Education

Primary studies were done in his native Cherumuk. Studied at Ruhul Islam Madrasah, Kundur AMLP School and Tirurangadi Government High School. He showed interest in the field of religious studies and attended classes at Cherumuk, Tirurangadi, Thazhechenakkal and Thekumpadam and acquired knowledge in various fields. For higher studies, he joined a three-year undergraduate course at Jamia Nooriya, Pattikkad in 1974-75, but did not complete his studies. Later, in 1976, he joined Jamaliya Arabic College, Chennai, but left after a month due to severe fever. After returning home, he continued his studies at Tirurangadi Bapu Musliyar's Dars. Later in 1977, he joined Darul Uloom Deoband, Lucknow and completed a one-year course in Dauratul Hadith. Thirurangadi Bapu Musliyar, Abul Bushra P Kunhin Musliyar, EK Abubakar Musliyar , Kotumala Abubakar Musliyar, Kumaramputhur AP. Muhammad Musliyar, Kotumala Moitheen Kutty Musliyar, M.T. Abdullah Musliyar Panangangara are the main gurus.

Career

He succeeded Kumaramputhur A. P. Muhammed Musliyar as the president of the Samastha in 2016. He is the disciple of famous Islamic scholars like Shams-ul-Ulama E.K Aboobacker Musliyar , Tirurangadi Bappu Musliyar and P Kunjeen Musliyar. He was one of the famous students of EK Aboobacker Musliyar.