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|name = Sanulla Makti Thangal
|mother = Shareefa Beevi
|father = Sayyid Ahmed
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|birth_date =1847<ref name="PPR99">{{cite book |last1=Abdul Razack P P |title=Colonialism and community formation in malabar a study of muslims of malabar |page=99 |url=https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/212493/10/10_chapter3.pdf#page=3 |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Veliyankode]],<ref name="PPR100">{{cite book |last1=Abdul Razack P P |title=Colonialism and community formation in malabar a study of muslims of malabar |page=100 |url=https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/212493/10/10_chapter3.pdf#page=4 |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> [[Ponnani]], [[Malappuram]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|death_date = 18 September 1912<ref name="PPR99"/>
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|known_for = reformation leader, Educationist<ref name="IM127">{{cite book |last1=Rafeeq |title=Development of Islamic movement in Kerala in modern times |location=Islahi Movement |page=127 |url= https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/52387/12/12_chapter%205.pdf#page=2|access-date=3 November 2019}}</ref>
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ISLAMIC SALAFI SCHOLAR<ref>''Journal of Kerala Studies'' Volume 9. (1982): 84.</ref><ref>Mohammed, U. ''Educational Empowerment of Kerala Muslims.'' Calicut (Kerala): Other Books, 2017. 33.</ref>
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'''Sanulla Makti Thangal''' ([[Arabic]]:سيّد سناء الله مكتي, [[Malayalam]]:സനാഉല്ലാ മക്തി തങ്ങൾ ) was the renaissance leader of Muslim society in [[Malabar region|Malabar]] of [[British India]] and the advocate of western education among the backward community of [[Mappila]]. He was notable as the first Muslim scholar and first [[Salafi]]<ref name="IM127"/> leader<ref>''Journal of Kerala Studies'' Volume 9. (1982): 84.

''"Chalilakath Kunhahammad Haji is rightly called the father of modern Arabic madrasas and Arabic colleges in Kerala. Vakkam Abdul Qadir Moulavi and his reforms while the Islamic educational reforms of Moulana Chalilakath..."''</ref><ref>Mohammed, U. ''Educational Empowerment of Kerala Muslims.'' Calicut (Kerala): Other Books, 2017. 33.

''"In the field of madrasa reformation in Kerala, the name of Moulana Chalilakath Kunhahamed Haji (d. AD 1919) can never be forgotten. His experiments centred round Darul Uloom of Vazhakkad. This institution was originally established in..."''</ref> to know the significance of the progressed western culture and the necessity of the western education to realize the reformation of knowledge. He commenced his career as the excise inspector under British government in India and later resigned from the post to defend the [[Christians|Christian]] missionaries. He dreamt about new Muslim society who will imbibe the advantages of western culture without getting rid of the valuable Islamic culture.

Sayyid Sanaulla Makti Thangal is often referred as one of the personalities influenced the Moplah Riots along with [[Sayyid Alavi Thangal]], [[Veliyankode Umar Khasi]] and Sayid [[Fazal Pookoya Thangal]].<ref>Panikkar, K. N., ''Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar, 1836-1921'' Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989.</ref>

==Early life==
He was born in 1847 born as the son of Ahmed Thangal, follower of Veliyankode Umer khasi at [[Veliyankode]],<ref name="THP">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/hidden-histories-syed-sanaullah-makthi-thangal-lies-buried-in-the-ancient-juma-masjid-at-calvathy/article6552537.ece|title=The forgotten legacy of Makthi Thangal|access-date=7 September 2020|last=K. PRADEEP|date=31 October 2014|work=The Hindu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907113007/https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/hidden-histories-syed-sanaullah-makthi-thangal-lies-buried-in-the-ancient-juma-masjid-at-calvathy/article6552537.ece|archive-date=7 September 2020}}</ref> [[Malappuram district|Malappuram]]. He fetched his primary education in Arabic literature from his father and later admitted in various Darse (Masjid based college) at Veliyankode, [[Ponnani]] and [[Maranchery]]. He was enrolled in Chavakkad Higher elementary school and possessed good command in [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[English language|English]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and his mother tongue [[Malayalam]]. Besides imbibing a deep knowledge in Islam religion, he was blessed with comprehensive knowledge in [[Christianity]] and [[Hinduism]]. He was influence by science, logic and philosophy and inclined to conquer more branches of western education. Thanks to his good command in English and Persian, he was appointed as the excise inspector in Malabar region and later he resigned because the Britishers came to India for three reasons and they were one to have business with India because spices and herbs were there only in India and the another reason was to spread Christianity and the other one was for ruling India so the Christian missionaries started to preach and convert Muslims to Christianity and another reason why thangal resigning was lack of knowledge about Islam in Muslims

==In the reformation field==
He commenced in society a new pattern of reformation, which not rejects the primitive culture, approach and concepts, but realize the role of west education in the progress of backward community. He made herculean task to check the progress of Christian missionary in Malabar regions and made a counterattack on their attempt to tarnish the image of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]]. After realizing the precarious ignorance of the Moplha society (Muslim society) even in their mother tongue Malayalam, he initiated a massive project to aware people about role of education and empowerment. He opposed armed and non-armed struggle against the ruling power and hailed his hatred towards the inclination of Muslims to be martyred and campaigned for progress of society.
He realized necessity of the women empowerment and adopted a new pattern, which was based on Islamic concept of gender discrimination and motivated the women horde to be scholar by pointing the role model in Ayish, the wife of Muhammad.

==His passion towards Muhammad ==
Out of deep love and respect to prophet Muhammad he adopted a strict stance in defending the attempt to tarnish Muhammad's image. In order to counter the ambush of Christian missionaries<ref name="Panikkar2119">{{cite journal |last1=K. N. Panikkar |title=Culture and Ideology: Contradictions in Intellectual Transformation of Colonial Society in India |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |year=1987 |volume=22 |issue=49 |page=2119 |jstor=4377823 }}</ref> against Muhammad, he collected a large fund from Muslims and published a series of publication, named as Nabi Nanayam.
He defended an usage, which was published in Sadashibamani and was not apt for the respect of Muhammad in unique and ever shining way{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}.

==Kerala Muslim renaissance==
Even though he was reformist, he never lost his lineage of orthodox Muslims and was the promoter of [[Islamic]] ideology. He motivated women empowerment, which is based on gender discrimination of Islamic line and was influenced by the primitive ways of lauding prophet. He narrated about Muhammad in his masterpiece, Nabi Nanayam,<ref name="PPR102">{{cite book |last1=Abdul Razack P P |title=Colonialism and community formation in malabar a study of muslims of malabar |page=102 |url=https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/212493/10/10_chapter3.pdf#page=6 |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> In which he answered to Christian missionary for their questions about Islam and prophet Muhamed. And he calls Muslims to return to the "Thouheed". And he tried to clear the misconceptions of the peoples about [[Islam]] and [[Prophet Muhammed]], so he is considered as the pioneer of [[Kerala muslim renaissance]] and the 'Islahi movements of Kerala' (a part of the Muslim renaissance of the community in kerala ).

==Literary works==
He was the first Malabar Muslim<ref name="NPAB209">{{cite book |last1=Narendar Pani, Anshuman Behera |title=Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy |date=10 November 2017 |page=209 |isbn=9781351332996 |access-date=4 November 2019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nuw9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT209}}</ref> to write a book in native language of [[Malayalam]] named Kadora Kodaram in year 1884. In 1885 he wrote another book named "Paropakaari" and it was noted as initiative for the reformation work. Muslim Janavum Vidyabyasavum (Muslims and education) was one of his notable work promoting the educational reformation of society

==Demise ==
He died on 18 September 1912.

== See Also (Social reformers of Kerala) ==

* [[Narayana Guru|Sree Narayana Guru]]
* [[Padmanabhan Palpu|Dr. Palpu]]
* [[Kumaran Asan|Kumaranasan]]
* [[Ayyathan Gopalan|Rao Sahib Dr. Ayyathan Gopalan]]
* [[Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi]]
* [[Vagbhatananda|Vaghbhatananda]]
* [[Mithavaadi Krishnan]]
* [[Moorkoth Kumaran]]
* [[Ayyankali]]
* [[Ayya Vaikundar]]
* [[Pandit Karuppan]]

==References==
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