Jamiaturraza Istanbul works under the guidance of the scholars of Jamiatur Raza, Bareilly. Its patrons are listed below.
محمد عسجد رضا خان
Mufti Asjad Raza Khan
Qaid-e-Millat · Grand Mufti of India and Qadi al-Qudat fi’l-Hind · Principal, Jamiatur Raza, Bareilly Shareef · President, Jamaat Raza-e-Mustafa
Qaid-e-Millat Mufti Muhammad Asjad Raza Khan is the son and successor of Taj al-Shari’ah Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan al-Azhari, and the Grand Mufti of India (Times of India, 2022). He holds the office of Qāḍī al-Quḍāt fi’l-Hind, India’s Chief Islamic Justice, at the Markazi Dar al-Qaza in Bareilly Shareef (official biography).
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He was born in Bareilly in Shaʿbān 1390 AH (1970), a great-great-grandson of Alahazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan. He studied with Mufti Muhammad Nazim Ali Barabankawi and Mufti Muzaffar Husain Katihari, and read the advanced texts, among them Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, with his maternal uncle Sadr al-Ulama Allama Tahsin Raza Khan. In 2001 he completed Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī before Muhaddith-e-Kabir Allama Zia al-Mustafa Qadri at Jamiatur Raza and received the turban of faḍīlah. In 2004 Taj al-Shari’ah gave him ijāzah and khilāfah in the Qadiri Razavi order and named him his successor (official biography).
He has been Principal of Jamiatur Raza since 2019 (Jamiatur Raza). He directs the Markazi Dar al-Ifta, which answers questions from around the world in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, English and Hindi, and is national President of All India Jamaat Raza-e-Mustafa, the organisation founded by Alahazrat (official biography). On 7 July 2024 he inaugurated Jamiaturraza Istanbul.
عاشق حسين الكشميري
Mufti Aashiq Hussain Kashmiri
Mufassir of the Qur’an · Khalifah of Taj al-Shari’ah · Head of the Department of Tafsir, Jamiatur Raza, Bareilly Shareef
Mufti Aashiq Hussain Kashmiri is a mufassir of the Qur’an and a khalīfah of Taj al-Shari’ah Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan al-Azhari (source). He heads the Department of Tafsir at Jamiatur Raza in Bareilly Shareef, and is the son-in-law of Qaid-e-Millat Mufti Asjad Raza Khan (Sunnī Duniyā, 2019).
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For many years he worked beside Taj al-Shari’ah as his scribe and academic assistant, writing down what he dictated and assisting him in his scholarly work. He compiled Taj al-Shari’ah’s teaching on the precedence of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar as the book Afḍaliyyat-e Ṣiddīq-e Akbar o Fārūq-e Aʿẓam (cover).
He accompanied Taj al-Shari’ah on his visit to Istanbul in September 2014 and wrote its account, published in English by TheSunniWay (travelogue). He speaks in Bareilly Shareef, at the ʿUrs of Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind among other gatherings (talks), and has taught in Britain, most recently on a tour of several cities in November 2025 (recordings).
زاهد حسين القادري
Mufti Zahid Hussain al-Qadiri
Founder of TheSunniWay, Preston, United Kingdom
Mufti Zahid Hussain al-Qadiri lives in Preston, in the north of England, where he founded TheSunniWay and is headteacher of its madrasah. He holds khilāfah from Taj al-Shari’ah Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan al-Azhari and from Muhaddith-e-Kabir Allama Zia al-Mustafa Qadri (TheSunniWay).
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TheSunniWay carries the teaching of Bareilly to English-speaking Muslims: speeches and books of the scholars of Bareilly — among them the English account of Taj al-Shari’ah’s visit to Istanbul in 2014 — apps for the Qur’an translation Kanz al-Īmān and for Taj al-Shari’ah’s fatwas, online courses, and a team of muftis and ʿālimahs serving communities in Britain, the United States and Europe.
He has taught and spoken across Britain — in Bolton, Blackburn, Manchester, Halifax, Leeds, Leicester, London, Heckmondwike and Keighley — and in Frankfurt, and takes part in the annual Fiqhi Seminar in Bareilly Shareef (TheSunniWay; his talks and articles).