Kerala Renaissance - Vakkom Muhammad Abdul Khader Moulavi (1873-1932)

Moulavi was born in 1873 in Vakkom, Chirayinkil Taluk, Thiruvanthapuram in Travancore.

Maulavi started the Swadeshabhimani newspaper on January 19, 1905, declaring that `the paper will not hesitate to expose injustices to the people in any form`, but on 26 September 1910, the newspaper and press were sealed and confiscated by the British Police.

Maulavi was considered one of greatest reformers in the Kerala Muslim community, and is sometimes referred to as the "Father of muslim renaissance".

The journal ‘Muslim’(1906) was mainly meant for religious reforms of the community and restore the the purity and essence of Islam shorn of all the accretions of superstitious and meaningless rituals and other evil practices. 

‘Al Islam’(1918) in Arabi-Malayalam was begun with the purpose to take his ideas of reform to illiterates in general particularly Muslim women who were steeped in ignorance. It had its intended effect. 

Another Malayalam monthly ‘Deepika’(1931) was begun almost at the evening of his life. The publication had a wide range of interests like education, history, science, literature, philosophy etc. It was his life's ambition to produce a translation of the Quran in Malayalam with his own commentary, but he died on 31 October 1932 before the work was completed.

Thanks & Source: http://www.vmft.org/vakkom-muhammad-abdul-khader-moulavi-1873-1932/ & Wikipedia