The idea of a students’ organisation for Samastha Kerala Jem-Iyyathul Ulama was in the discussions right from the 1950s. There was an organisation called Samastha Kerala Jem-Iyyathu Thwalaba with C H Abdurrahman Musaliyar ibn Qutbi as its president. There are references about the meeting of the organisation held in 1958 in Vadakara and in 1961 in Kakkad. Discussions on the relevance of a students’ organisation became alive with the publication on the topic in the Sunni Times weekly. In 1972, the Mujahids started a students’ organisation called Mujahid Students’ Movement (MSM). This intensified the necessity of an organisation to counter the move and there were active discussions in ‘Noorul Ulama’, the publication of the students of the Jamia Nooriyya. Finally, the scholars of Samastha agreed to form a students’ organisation under its banner and thus Sunni Student...