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Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (Arab world known as: Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmad (شيخ ابوبكر أحمد)), Malayalam: കാന്തപുരം എ.പി. അബൂബക്കര് മുസ്ലിയാര് (born on 22 March 1939) is the leader and scholar of one of the traditionalist Sunni Muslims in Kerala, India. Usthad Shaikh Aboobackar bin Ahmad is the General Secretary of the All India Muslim Scholars Association (All India Sunni Jam-Iyyathul Ulema) and founder and Chancellor of Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya (Sunni Cultural Centre), Karanthur, Kozhikode, Kerala. He is also chief patron of the Sunni Youth Society and General Secretary,Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ulema (Kerala) Kanthapuram is a scholar, orator, writer, organizer, educationist and fore-fighter of social revivalism. Over the years Kanthapuram has expressed very conservative views on women's liberties. Kanthapuram was 10th accused in Chekannur Maulavi murder case, he was acquitted by the Kerala HC.