Sanulla Makti Thangal (Arabic:سيّد سناء الله مكتي, Malayalam:സനാഉല്ലാ മക്തി തങ്ങൾ ) was the renaissance leader of Muslim society in Malabar of British India and the advocate of western education among the backward community of Mappila. He was notable as the first Muslim scholar and first Salafi leader to know the significance of the progressed western culture and the necessity of the western education to realize the reformation of knowledge. He commenced his career as the excise inspector under British government in India and later resigned from the post to defend the Christian missionaries. He dreamt about new Muslim society who will imbibe the advantages of western culture without getting rid of the valuable Islamic culture. Sayyid Sanaulla Makti Thangal is often referred as one of the personalities influenced the Moplah Riots along with Sayyid Alavi Thangal, Veliyankode Umar Khasi and Sayid Fazal Pookoya Thangal. Early life He was born in 1847 born as the son of Ahmed Thangal, follower of Veliyankode Umer khasi at Veliyankode, Malappuram. He fetched his primary education in Arabic literature from his father and later admitted in various Darse (Masjid based college) at Veliyankode, Ponnani and Maranchery. He was enrolled in Chavakkad Higher elementary school and possessed good command in Hindustani, Persian, English, Tamil and his mother tongue Malayalam. Besides imbibing a deep knowledge in Islam religion, he was blessed with comprehensive knowledge in Christianity and Hinduism. He was influence by science, logic and philosophy and inclined to conquer more branches of western education. Thanks to his good command in English and Persian, he was appointed as the excise inspector in Malabar region and later he resigned because the Britishers came to India for three reasons and they were one to have business with India because spices and herbs were there only in India and the another reason was to spread Christianity and the other one was for ruling India so the Christian missionaries started to preach and convert Muslims to Christianity and another reason why thangal resigning was lack of knowledge about Islam in Muslims In the reformation field He commenced in society a new pattern of reformation, which not rejects the primitive culture, approach and concepts, but realize the role of west education in the progress of backward community. He made herculean task to check the progress of Christian missionary in Malabar regions and made a counterattack on their attempt to tarnish the image