Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal

Panakkad Sayed Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal (15 June 1947 – 6 March 2022) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Thangal community leader from Kerala, southern India who was the Kerala State President and chairman, national political advisory committee, Indian Union Muslim League from 2009 to 2022. He was also the vice president of the Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama' (E. K. faction), the principal Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in Kerala.

Hyder Ali Thangal was a member of the Pukkoya family of Panakkad (north Kerala). He was the third son of P. M. S. A. Pookkoya Thangal (1913 – 1975) and the younger brother of Sayed Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal and Sayed Umar Ali Shihab Thangal. He was the founding president of Sunni Students Federation (S. S. F.), the student wing of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', in 1973. He graduated from Jami'a Nooriyya, Perinthalmanna in 1989.

Hyder Ali Thangal was elected as the successor to Mohammed Ali Thangal as the Kerala State President of Indian Union Muslim League in 2009. After Pookkoya Thangal, Hyderali Thangal was the only leader to head both the Muslim League and the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama simultaneously.

He died at the Little Flower Hospital in Angamaly, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 74.