Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal

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Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal is the president of the Kerala state committee of the Indian Union Muslim League.

Shihab Thangal, the public figure who has completed an eventful quarter century^{[citation needed]} in quiet stewardship of the Indian Union Muslim League, arguably the one remaining mainstream parliamentary political party of Indian Muslims with a significant following is an unmistakable dove.Shihab Thangal has a doctorate in religion from Cairo's Al Azhar University.^{[citation needed]}

Thangal is the only man in Muslim League who doesn't have to contest an election to remain the paramount leader of the League. One of the most powerful men in political Islam lives in the periphery of a State where Muslims constitute 24 per cent of the population.^{[citation needed]}

Thangal's power is spiritual, ancestral and political.^{[citation needed]} It started five generations ago, when the first Thangals landed in Valapattanam from Yemen.^{[citation needed]} They traveled to Calicut, then to Malappuram, as learned men of healing. Shihab Thangal inherited the spiritual as well as the political mantle of the Thangal magic from his late father, Syed Ahmed Pookoya Thangal.^{[citation needed]}