Ameen Mian Qaudri
Syed Muhammad Ameen Mian Qadri is the custodian (Sajjada Nashin) of the Khanqah-e-Marehra Shareef (Sufi Khanqah) of the Barkatiya Silsila, a subgroup of the Indian Sufi Barelvi movement with 50,000,000 adherents. He is also senior professor at the Urdu Department of India's prestigious Aligarh Muslim University. He has been ranked 44th in the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world by the Amman, Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in collaboration with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University, Washington DC. Present. On 6  August 2006, the English-language daily "Hindustan Times", described Ameen Mian Qaudri as the main leader of the Ahle Sunnah. His silsila is known as Barkatiya which has a lineage from Qadri silsila of Baghdad. It is said that his silsila has a following of around two million people in India and abroad. He has presided over many large gatherings in India and abroad. He has worked for the educational uplift of Muslims of India, and started a chain of educational institutions in India with the prefix "Al-Barkaat", including Al Barkaat Institute of Management Studies and Research, Al Barkaat  Public School Boys, Al Barkaat Public School Girls, Al Barkaat department of Education, Al Barkaat institute of Graduate Studies, Al Barkaat Vocational Studies college, Al Barkaat Play and Learn Centre, Jamia Ahsanul Barkaat. Disciples of His Khankah-e-Barkatiya. Ahmad Raza Khan was the disciple of Sayyid Shah Al-e Rasul, a Sayyid and a noted Pir of the Barkatiyya family based in a small town of Marahra near Aligarh.