The Council for Islamic Education and Research (CIER) is a wing of one of the largest Islamic movements in Kerala. The CIER’s work is to prepare books for Islamic Institutions and to train their teachers. Established in 2002. Dr. E.K.Ahmad Kutty, former Head of the Department of Arabic in Calicut University is the founder chairman of the CIER. Other senior members of the CIER’s governing board include Saeed Faruqi,former Chief Instructor of the Government-run Arabic Language Teachers’ Training Institute, Calicut, and N.P.Abdul Ghafoor, former member of the Kerala Government Text books Committee.

Our major achievement so far is a set of new textbooks for islamic Institutions, which are probably one of their kind in the whole of India. The text books used previously, were at least half a century old and badly need to be reformed. We retained the basic content of the earlier curriculum as it broadly was, but made major changes in style and presentation, drawing on modern, child-centric, activity-based and story-telling teaching methods that encourage students to think for themselves rather than simply bombarding them with information.