Ilyas Qadri

Ilyas Qadri
الیاس قادری
Personal
Born
Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri

(1950-07-12) 12 July 1950 (age 74)[1]
ReligionIslam
NationalityPakistani
Children
  • Ahmad Ubaid Raza
  • Bilal Raza Qadri
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
MovementBarelvi
Notable work(s)Faizan-e-Sunnat
Teachers
TariqaQadiriyya
Known forFounder of Dawat-e-Islami
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013 — Present
Subscribers1.74 million[2]
Total views243.5 million[2]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Last updated: 07 Aug 2023.
Muslim leader
Website
TelevisionMadani Channel
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Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri[a] (born 1950) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar who is the founder of Dawat-e-Islami. He belongs to the Qadri order of Sufism.

A Kutchi Memon, Qadri was born in Karachi and studied under Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri at Darul Uloom Amjadia. He was authorized in Sufism by Fazlur Rahman and Waqaruddin Qadri.

His Dawat-e-Islami is a non-political global organization of Barelvi Sunnis spread over 195+ countries.[3][1][4][5][6][7] He has around 30 million disciples all over the world.[1][8][9]

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  2. ^ a b "About Maulana Ilyas Qadri". YouTube.
  3. ^ "Dawat-e-Islami is a Non-Political Movement". Daily Pakistan. 29 April 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Da'awat moot concludes". DAWN.COM. 21 October 2002. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  5. ^ Kamran Yousaf (12 September 2011). "Dawat-e-Islami comes under military's radar". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  6. ^ N. K. Singh (2009). global encyclopedia of Islamic mystics and mysticism. India: Global Vision Publishing House, India. p. 270. ISBN 978-81-8220-673-1.
  7. ^ Dunya, Sindhi (7 February 2018), "Muhammad Ilyas Qadri: The Notable Islamic Cleric of Sindh", Sindhi Dunya, archived from the original on 7 December 2018, retrieved 6 December 2018
  8. ^ "Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri". The Muslim 500. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  9. ^ Afzal, Madiha (16 March 2018). Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society and the State. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 9789353050054. Archived from the original on 10 February 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2020.


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