The entire islamic community in Koothanallur practices Fassiya branch of the Shadhiliyya Sufi order.
Imam | imam | Ali Imam | Shafi Imam Rumi | Ali Imam (artist) | Sheikh Imam | Imam Shamil | Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University | Imam Fassi | Imam Husayn Shrine | imām | Carlo Fassi | Abbas El Fassi | Syed Hasan Imam | Sharif Imam | Jahanara Imam | Imam Samudra | Imam-Quli Khan | El Imam El Mahdi University |
His second wife was Hind Al Fassi, a member of the Saudi Arabian al-Fassi family and daughter of Sheikh Shams ed-din Al Fassi, a Sufi religious leader from the Shadhili order, and grandson of Moroccan Sufi Imam al-Fassi, who had settled in Mecca in the late 18th-century.