Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal

Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal is the president of the Kerala state committee of the Indian Union Muslim League.

Shihab Thangal, the public figure who has completed an eventful quarter centuryfact|date=May 2008 in quiet stewardship of the Indian Union Muslim League, arguably the one remaining mainstream parliamentary political party of Indian Muslims with a significant following is an unmistakable dove.Shihab Thangal has a doctorate in religion from Cairo's Al Azhar University.fact|date=May 2008

Thangal is the only man in Muslim League who doesn't have to contest an election to remain the paramount leader of the League. One of the most powerful men in political Islam lives in the periphery of a State where Muslims constitute 24 per cent of the population.fact|date=May 2008

Thangal's power is spiritual, ancestral and political.fact|date=May 2008 It started five generations ago, when the first Thangals landed in Valapattanam from Yemen.fact|date=May 2008 They traveled to Calicut, then to Malappuram, as learned men of healing. Shihab Thangal inherited the spiritual as well as the political mantle of the Thangal magic from his late father, Syed Ahmed Pookoya Thangal.fact|date=May 2008

Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal (Died on July 3, 2008), Sayed hyderali Shihab Thangal, Sayed Sadiqali Shihab Thangal, Sayed Abbasali Shihab Thangal are younger brothers of Sayed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal.

ee also

*Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal
*Indian Union Muslim League