WAR COMMENTARIES AND MAPPILA CONSCIOUSNESS: INFLUENCE OF MADINIDI MALA ON MALABAR MAPPILAS

Abstract

The Mappila folk literature includes tales ballads songs, historical narration, war commentaries, and local lifestyles evolved through the native and immigrant cultures. Like all the folk cultures the folk tradition of Mappila also had a free and loyal culture that fostered unity and oneness among themselves, particularly in the present society and the culture was molded on a continuous and concrete set of beliefs and ideals. It also helped to the rise of consciousness about the existing situation. The role of Arabic Malayalam script poet Moinkutty Vaidyar was important. His work was the most favorite and dominant mode of expression of the Mappilas of Malabar, a survey of the entire gamut of Arabic Malayalam poetry is a necessary prerequisite to understanding Mappila as a community. Such a survey helps us to comprehend the religious learning’s hops and worries in short, the whole mentality of the Mappilas.