Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musalyar

Sheikh Ahmed Aboobacker ( born March 22, 1939 in Kanthapuram, Calicut District, Kerala, India) is the leader of the traditionalist Sunni Muslims in the southern Indian state of Kerala and one of the most important contemporary Muslim personalities of India. He holds many high offices.

Aboobacker Ahmed caused a revival in the religiosity in the Muslim population of southern India and is considered as an intellectual reformer of Indian Islam.

He is the general secretary ( secretary general), or Vice- Chancellor ( Vice Chancellor ) of the Sunni Cultural Centre Markazu Saqafathi Sunniya in Kerala ( Karanthur, Kozhikode ).

The center has become one of the most important educational organizations in Kerala, with 40 schools from primary school to university level. The schools have about 9,000 students, many of whom are orphans.

In 2006 he was one of the signatories of the open letter of Islamic scholars to Pope Benedict XVI. after his Regensburg speech.

In 2007 he was one of the signatories of the statement "A Common Word Between Us and You ", with which 138 Islamic personalities "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English " Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... " ) turned to peace between Christians and to create Muslims.

2009 and 2011 he was one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the collection of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim- Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.

In 2009 he was awarded the prize Shaik Abdul Khadar Jeelani Muhiyudheen Award.