Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)

[9][10][11][4] 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.

The reformist Mujahids, belonging to the Salafi movement, make up around 10 percent of the total Muslim population of Kerala.

[15] Samastha began in 1926 to counter Vakkom Moulavi's Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangam[14]—the precursor of KNM and the wider Mujahid movement.

Haris Madani, a young scholar belonging to AP Sunnis, in 2022, said the difference between AP and EK Sunnis is purely organisational whereas Husain Madavoor, a Mujahid leader, considers fiqh to be irrelevant.

So Sunnis had to add the term "Samastha" to the name of the organisation at the conference held at Kozhikode Town Hall on 26 June 1926.