Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal

  Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal (15 June 1947 – 6 March 2022) was an Indian Muslim religious leader and politician who was the Kerala State President of Indian Union Muslim League^[1] and Chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University, Kerala. He was also the Vice President of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, one of the Sunni Muslim organisations in Kerala.^[2]

Hyderali Shihab Thangal was a member of the Pukkoya family of Panakkad, Malappuram. He was the third son of P. M. S. A. Pookkoya Thangal (1913-1975) and the younger brother of Sayed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal and Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal.^[3] He was elected as the successor to Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal as the Kerala State President of Indian Union Muslim League in 2009.^[4]

He died at the Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 74. He suffered from cancer prior to his death.