Shaikh Muhammad Karakunnu

Shaikh Muhammad Karakunnu is an Indian author, Islamic Scholar and State Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Kerala chapter. He has authored more than Ninety books and has delivered numerous speeches on Islam, Muslim and Jamat-e-islami. He served as the Director of the Kerala-based Islamic Publishing House. Shaik Mohammed Karakunnu was born to Mohammed Haji and Fatima on 15 July 1950 at Karakkunnu, a village near Manjeri in Malappuram district, in Kerala. He completed his education from Farooq Raudathul Uloom Arabic College, Kozhikode. After competing his studies from Roudhathul Uloom Arabic College, Feroke, Calicut he worked as a teacher for 10 years first at VHM High School Morayur and then at Islahiya Oriental High school Edavanna. He worked as a teacher in various government High schools. He served 25 years as the director of Islamic publishing house from 1982. Following which he took charge as the assistant ameer of Kerala JIH from 2007 to the present. He resumed his duties as director of Islamic publishing house from 2015 and continues to do so. He is also Prabhodanam chief editor from 2015. Later he took voluntary retirement and fully concentrated in writing and speeches for Islamic Dawah and propagation. He was executive member of Jamat-e-islami Hind and its Kerala chapter. He is married to Amina ummu aimen. Aneez Mohammed, Dr. Aleef Mohammed, Dr. Basima, Ayman Mohammed are their children. He is the author of 80 books of which 14 are translations. He received awards for 5 books. Some of his books have been translated to English Tamil Kannada and Gujarati.