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{{Short description|Muslim community leader, scholar and politician from Kerala (1947–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Habib
| name = Hyder Ali AlHusseini Ba Alavi
| image = Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal BNC.jpg
| caption = Habib Hyderali Husseini (2015)
| office = Kerala State President, [[Indian Union Muslim League]]
| term_start = 2009
| term_end = 2022
| office1 = Chairman, National Political Advisory Committee, [[Indian Union Muslim League]]
| term_start1 =
| office2 = Vice President, [[Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (1926–1989)|Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama']]
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1947|06|15}}
| birth_place = [[Panakkad]], [[Malabar District|Malabar]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|03|06|1947|06|15}}
| death_place = [[Angamaly]], [[Ernakulam district|Ernakulam]]
| party = [[Indian Union Muslim League]]
| spouse =
| relations = * [[Syed Muhammadali Shihab Thangal]] (brother)
* Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal (brother)
* [[Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal]] (brother)
* [[Sayyid Abbas Ali Shihab Thangal|Syed Abbas Ali Shihab Thangal]] (brother)
| children = [[Syed Mueen Ali Shihab Thangal]]
[[Sayyid Naeemali Shihab Thangal ]]
| parents = [[PMSA Pookkoya Thangal]] (father)
| education = Faizy (Post Graduate, Arabic and Islamic Sharīʿah)
| alma_mater = [[Jami'a Nooriyya Arabic College|Jami'a Nooriyya Arabiyya Pattikkad]] ([[Perintalmanna|Perinthalmanna]])
| occupation = * Community leader
* Islamic scholar
* Politician
| signature =
| website =
}}

'''Panakkad Sayed Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal''' (15 June 1947 – 6 March 2022) was an Indian Islamic scholar and ''[[Thangal]]'' community leader from [[Kerala]], southern India who was the Kerala State President and chairman, national political advisory committee, [[Indian Union Muslim League]] from 2009 to 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Political Advisory Committee |url=http://iuml.com/nationalcommittees.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225142153/http://iuml.com/nationalcommittees.html |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=2019-01-09 |website=Indian Union Muslim League (official website)}}</ref> He was also the vice president of the [[Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK Sunnis)|Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama']] (E. K. faction), the principal [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]-[[Shafi‘i|Shafi'i]] scholarly body in [[Kerala]].<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2018-01-18 |title=Samastha-Thangal Family Row Settled |work=The Times of India |publication-place=Kozhikode |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/samastha-thangal-family-row-settled/articleshow/62347851.cms |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620082425/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/samastha-thangal-family-row-settled/articleshow/62347851.cms |archive-date=20 June 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=IUML Leader Panakkad Sayyid Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal Laid to Rest |work=OnManorama |publisher=Malayala Manorama |location=Kottayam |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/03/06/iuml-state-president-panakkad-sayed-hyderali-thangal-dies.html}}</ref>

Hyder Ali Thangal was a member of the [[Pukkoya family of Panakkad|Pukkoya family]] of [[Panakkad]] (north Kerala). He was the third son of [[Pukkoya Tangal|P. M. S. A. Pookkoya Thangal]] (1913 – 1975) and the younger brother of [[Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal|Sayed Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal]] and Sayed Umar Ali Shihab Thangal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nijeesh |first=T. P. |date=2012-04-03 |title=Panakkad Family to Figure in History of Syeds |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Panakkad-family-to-figure-in-history-of-Syeds/articleshow/12512913.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116175442/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Panakkad-family-to-figure-in-history-of-Syeds/articleshow/12512913.cms |archive-date=16 January 2019 |access-date=2019-01-09 |website=The Times of India |publication-place=Malappuram}}</ref> He was the founding president of [[Sunni Students Federation]] (S. S. F.), the student wing of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', in 1973. He graduated from [[Jami'a Nooriyya Arabic College|Jami'a Nooriyya]], [[Perintalmanna|Perinthalmanna]] in 1989.<ref name=":0" /> He led the Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (S. Y. S.), the youth wing of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, and later served the Malappuram District President, [[Indian Union Muslim League]] for around two decades.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Ali |first=Firoz |date=7 March 2022 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal Managed to Bridge Differences Between League and Samastha |work=OnManorama |publisher=Malayala Manorama |location=Kottayam |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/03/07/hyderali-shihab-thangal-leader-of-league-samastha-kerala.html}}</ref>

Hyder Ali Thangal was elected as the successor to [[Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal|Mohammed Ali Thangal]] as the Kerala State President of [[Indian Union Muslim League]] in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 August 2009 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal, Chief of IUML in Kerala |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/Hyderali-Shihab-Thangal-chief-of-IUML-in-Kerala/article16875145.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620083115/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/Hyderali-Shihab-Thangal-chief-of-IUML-in-Kerala/article16875145.ece |archive-date=2020-06-20}}</ref> After [[Pukkoya Tangal|Pookkoya Thangal]], Hyderali Thangal was the only leader to head both the Muslim League and the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama simultaneously.<ref name=":1" /> He also served as the chairman of Kerala Wakf Board.<ref name=":1" /> He was also the founding chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University, [[Chemmad]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=Hyderali Shihab Thangal Passes Away |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hyderali-shihab-thangal-passes-away/article65198530.ece}}</ref>

He died at the [[Little Flower Hospital]] in Angamaly, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 74.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 March 2022 |title=IUML Leader Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal, 74, Passes Away |language= |work=Mathrubhumi |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/iuml-leader-sayed-hyderali-shihab-thangal-passes-away-1.7319597 |access-date=}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Shashi Tharoor, the diplomat-turned-politician, described the Thangal as a "diminutive giant of Kerala politics" as he tweeted about his death.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 March 2022 |title=Muslim League leader Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal Dies at 74 |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2022/03/06/kerala-muslim-league-leader-hyder-ali-shihab-thangal-dies-at-74.html |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=The Week Magazine |language=}}</ref>

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[[Category:1947 births]]
[[Category:2022 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian Union Muslim League politicians]]
[[Category:Islam in Kerala]]
[[Category:Kerala Sunni-Shafi'i scholars]]
[[Category:People from Malappuram district]]
[[Category:Deaths from cancer in India]]
[[Category:Indian people of Arab descent]]
[[Category:Ba' Alawi Tribe]]

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