| Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal | |
| Office: | President Samastha |
| Predecessor: | Kumaramputhur A. P. Muhammed Musliyar |
| Termstart: | 22 January 2017 |
| Office1: | Chairman Suprabhaatham |
| Predecessor1: | Kottumala Bappu Musliyar |
| Termstart1: | 4 March 2017 |
| Birth Place: | Cherumukku, Tirurangadi, Malappuram District |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Occupation: | Islamic scholar |
| Honorific Prefix: | Sayyid |
Syed Muhammad Jiffiri Muthukoya Thangal, also known as Syed Jifri Muthukoya Thangal is the current President, Samastha and he is an Islamic scholar, Teacher, religious leader and Qazi. He is an Islamic scholar from Kerala, India. He serves as President, Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, the body of Sunni-Shafi'i scholars in northern Kerala. Thangal is the 11th president of the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama.
Jifri Muthukkoya was born in March 1957 at Matrbhavanam in Irumpuchola, Malappuram district as the son of Sayed Husain Jifri Pookunjikkoya Thangal and Fathima Cheri Biwi Jamalullaili. His wife is Fathwimath Muth Biwi, daughter of S.K.K Thangal Jamalullaili, Chemmad Kariparamba. Children: Jafar Swadiq Thangal, Twaha Hussain, Najwa Jifri. He is notable as one of the leaders of the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, one of the dominant Sunni scholars' organizations in Kerala. He is also known as the Principal of the Joint Muslim Jamaat Qasi and Arabic College. His hometown is now in Cherumukku village near Thirurangadi in Malappuram district, He is from the Jifry family, who are the descendants of Syed Hussein Jiffiri who arrived from Yemen in AD 1823.[1]
Primary studies were done in his native Cherumukku. He studied at Ruhul Islam Madrasah, Kundur AMLP School, and Tirurangadi Government High School. He showed interest in the field of religious studies and attended classes at Cherumuk, Tirurangadi, Thazhe Chenakkal, and Thekkumpadam and acquired knowledge in various fields. For higher studies, he joined a three-year undergraduate course at Jamia Nooriya, Pattikkad in 1974-75, but did not complete his studies. Later, in 1976, he joined Jamaliya Arabic College, Chennai, but left after a month due to severe fever. After returning home, he continued his studies at Tirurangadi Bapu Musliyar's Dars. Later, in 1977, he joined Darul Uloom Deoband, Lucknow, and completed a one-year course in Dauratul Hadith. Thirurangadi Bapu Musliyar, Abul Bushra P Kunhin Musliyar, EK Abubakar Musliyar, Kotumala Abubakar Musliyar Kumaramputhur, AP. Muhammad Musliyar, Kotumala Moitheen Kutty Musliyar, M.T. Abdullah Musliyar Panangangara are the main gurus.
He succeeded Kumaramputhur A. P. Muhammed Musliyar as the president of the Samastha in 2016.[2] [3] He is the disciple of famous Islamic scholars like Shams-ul-Ulama E.K Aboobacker Musliyar, Tirurangadi Bappu Musliyar and P Kunjeen Musliyar. He was one of the famous students of EK Aboobacker Musliyar.