Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)
| Formation | 26 June 1926 |
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| Founder | Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal |
| Type | Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body |
General Secretary | Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar |
President | E. Sulaiman Musliyar |
Treasurer | Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar |
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Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of AP Sunnis, also known as Samastha and AP Samastha, is a Sunni-Shafi'i Muslim scholarly body in Kerala. The council administers Shafi'ite mosques, institutes of higher religious learning (the equivalent of north Indian madrasas) and madrasas (institutions where children receive basic Islamic education) in India. There are two organisations known as Samastha, one named after E. K. Aboobacker Musliyar and the other after Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, both of which emerged in 1989, due to organisational disagreement in Samastha.
Similar to EK Sunnis, a forty-member council also known as the 'mushawara' functions a high command body of AP Sunnis. As of December 2023, the council includes Samastha general secretary Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar; Samastha president E. Sulaiman Musliar; vice presidents Sayyid Ali Bafaqi Thangal, P. A. Aidrus Musliyar Kollam and K. S. Attakoya Thangal Kumbol; treasurer Kottur Kunjammu Musliyar; secretaries Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari, Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliyar and Perod Abdurahman Saqafi.