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{{See also|Islam in Kerala}}

 

* Most of the Muslims in Kerala follow the [[Shafi'i|Shāfiʿī]] [[Madh'hab|School]] ([[Sunni Islam]]), followed by [[Salafi movement]].<ref name="brill12">Miller, Roland. E., "Mappila" in "The Encyclopedia of Islam". Volume VI. E. J. Brill, Leiden. 1987 pp. 458-56.</ref>

* Muslims in Kerala share a common language ([[Malayalam]]) with the Hindus and rest of the population and have a culture commonly regarded as the Malayali culture.<ref name="brill3">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ChEVAAAAIAAJ Pg 461, Roland Miller, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol VI, Brill 1988]</ref>

[[File:Madhhab Map3.png|300px|thumbnail|[[Shafiʽi school]] (shaded in dark blue) is the most-prominent school among the [[Muslim]]s of [[Kerala]], coastal [[Karnataka]], southern [[Tamil Nadu]], and [[Sri Lanka]] unlike from rest of [[South Asia]]]]

[[File:Cheraman Masjid 2.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cheraman Juma Mosque|Cheraman Juma Masjid]] at [[Kodungallur]], [[Thrissur district|Thrissur]]]]

Kerala has been a major spice exporter since 3000&nbsp;BCE, according to [[Sumer|Sumerian records]] and it is still referred to as the "Garden of Spices" or as the "Spice Garden of India".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/of-kerala-egypt-and-the-spice-link/article5625620.ece |first=Kaavya |last=Pradeep Kumar |work=The Hindu |title=Of Kerala, Egypt, and the Spice link |date=28 January 2014 |access-date=12 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="ChattopadhyayFranke2006">{{Cite book|title=Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala|last1=Chattopadhyay|first1=Srikumar|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=2006|isbn=978-81-8069-294-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOrvghLklKoC|last2=Franke|first2=Richard W.}}</ref>{{rp|79}} Kerala's spices attracted ancient [[Arab]]s, [[Babylonians]], [[Assyria]]ns and [[Egyptians]] to the Malabar Coast in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. [[Phoenicians]] established trade with Kerala during this period.<ref name="Menon57">{{cite book |author=A Sreedhara Menon |title=A Survey Of Kerala History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVsw35oEBv4C&pg=PA57 |access-date=10 October 2012 |date=1 January 2007 |publisher=DC Books |isbn=978-81-264-1578-6 |pages=57–58}}</ref> [[Arab]]s and [[Phoenicians]] were the first to enter [[Malabar Coast]] to trade [[Spice]]s.<ref name="Menon57"/> The Arabs on the coasts of [[Yemen]], [[Oman]], and the [[Persian Gulf]], must have made the first long voyage to Kerala and other [[Eastern world|eastern countries]].<ref name="Menon57"/> They must have brought the [[Cinnamon]] of Kerala to the [[Middle East]].<ref name="Menon57"/> The Greek historian [[Herodotus]] (5th century BCE) records that in his time the cinnamon spice industry was monopolized by the Egyptians and the Phoenicians.<ref name="Menon57"/>

 

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The [[Saint Thomas Christians]] (Nasrani) of Kerala primarily belongs to the churches which use the [[East Syriac Rite]] ([[Syro Malabar Church]] and [[Chaldean Syrian Church]]) and [[West Syriac Rite]] ([[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]], [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]], [[Mar Thoma Syrian Church]], [[St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India]], [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]] and the [[Malabar Independent Syrian Church]]). [[CSI Syrian Christians]] follow the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] rite. [[Pentecostal Saint Thomas Christians]], like other Pentecostals, are riteless (nonliturgical).<ref>{{cite book |last1=John |first1=Stanley J. Valayil C. |title=Transnational Religious Organization and Practice: A Contextual Analysis of Kerala Pentecostal Churches in Kuwait |date=19 February 2018 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-36101-0 |pages=167, 203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kntTDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> The Saint Thomas Christians form 70.73% of the Christians of Kerala and 12.5% of the total population of Kerala.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Allan |last2=Tang |first2=Edmond |title=Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia |year=2005 |publisher=OCMS |isbn=978-1-870345-43-9 |pages=192 to 193, 195 to 196, 203 to 204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDZgKELq7AoC&q=pentecostalism+kerala+syrian+christian&pg=PA196 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bergunder |first1=Michael |title=The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century |date=6 June 2008 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0-8028-2734-0 |pages=15 to 16, 26 to 30, 37 to 57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGiv3riaunQC&q=Pentecostal+evangelical+saint+thomas+syrian+christian |language=en}}</ref>

Buddhism probably flourished for 200 years (650-850) in Kerala. The Paliyam Copper Plate of the Ay King, Varaguna (885-925 AD)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Be3PCvzf-BYC&dq=Paliyam+Copper+Plate&pg=PA138 A social history of India S. N. Sadasivan APH Publishing, 2000]</ref> shows that the Buddhists benefited from royal patronage in the 10th century.

 

 

However there remain [[Lists of Buddhist sites and traditions in Kerala|Buddhist sites and traditions across Kerala.]]

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