{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox religious biography | religion = [[Islam]] | honorific_prefix = | name = Subhan Raza Khan | image = | caption = | title = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = [[Bareilly]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]] | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | other_names = | nationality = [[India]]n | ethnicity = | era = Modern Era | region = [[India]] | occupation = [[Islamic Scholar]] | denomination = [[Sunni]] | jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] | creed = [[Maturidi]] | movement = [[Barelvi]] | main_interests = [[Sufism]] | notable_ideas = | notable_works = Editor of [[Ala Hazrat]] Monthly magazine | alma_mater = | Sufi_order = [[Qadiriyya]] | disciple_of = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | module = | website = | signature = | background = green | relations = [[Tawqir Raza Khan]] (brother) | school_tradition = [[Qadiriyya]] | father = Rehan Raza Khan | children = [[Mufti Ahsan Raza Khan]] }} '''Subhan Raza Khan''' is an Indian Islamic scholar who was the former head of [[Bareilly Dargah]], shrine of his great-great grandfather [[Ahmed Raza Khan]],<ref>http://sunnirazvi.net/library/research.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914001138/http://sunnirazvi.net/library/research.htm |date=14 September 2016 }} "Maulana Subhan Raza Khan ("Subhani Miyan"), great-grandson of Imam Ahmad Raza (through descent from Hamid Raza Khan [d.1943], Imam Ahmad Raza's eldest son."</ref> in [[Bareilly]], [[India]].<ref name="ndtv">{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cleric-objects-to-taslima-nasreens-tweets-files-fir-543489|title=Cleric objects to Taslima Nasreen's tweets, files FIR|publisher=ndtv.com|accessdate=2015-07-28|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225152231/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cleric-objects-to-taslima-nasreens-tweets-files-fir-543489|url-status=live}}</ref> He is chairperson of the [[Manzar-e-Islam]] seminary.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror?|author1=Malik, J.|author2=Malik, P.C.R.S.I.S.J.|date=2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781134107636|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVnVOGluM3UC&pg=PA31|page=31|accessdate=2015-07-28|archive-date=10 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240210112530/https://books.google.com/books?id=NVnVOGluM3UC&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> He also edits the Urdu-language [[Ala Hazrat|''Ala Hazrat'' monthly magazine]] which is published in Dargah.<ref name="librarianz">{{cite web|url=http://librarianz.com/texts/FatawaManzarEIslamNo2EdSubhanRazaKhan.html|title=Fatawa Manzar E Islam No 2 Ed Subhan Raza Khan Texts|publisher=librarianz.com|accessdate=2015-07-28|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225152220/http://librarianz.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="academia">{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/643229|title=The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur &#124; Usha Sanyal - Academia.edu|journal=Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? |date=January 2008 |publisher=academia.edu|accessdate=2015-07-28|archive-date=22 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622081546/http://www.academia.edu/643229/The_Madrasa_Manzar-i_Islam_Bareilly_and_Jamia_Ashrafiyya_Mubarakpur|url-status=live |last1=Sanyal |first1=Usha }}</ref> His son Ahsan Raza Khan has been appointed present head of the Bareilly Dargah.<ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Clerics-oppose-the-appointment-of-son-as-new-Sajjadanasheen-of-Dargah-Ala-Hazrat/articleshow/45272544.cms Clerics oppose the appointment of son as new Sajjadanasheen of Dargah Ala Hazrat] timesofindia.com | Priyangi Agarwal | 25 Nov 2014</ref>

In 2015 during a protest against illegal encroachment on Waqf properties, he called [[Samajwadi Party]] founder-patron [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]] an "[[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]] agent".<ref name="indiatimes3">{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Mulayam-Singh-an-RSS-agent-Muslim-cleric-says/articleshow/47486309.cms | title=Mulayam Singh an 'RSS agent', Muslim cleric says | date=31 May 2015 | first=Mrigank | last=Tiwari | newspaper=The Times of India | accessdate=22 May 2018 | archive-date=13 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613213806/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Mulayam-Singh-an-RSS-agent-Muslim-cleric-says/articleshow/47486309.cms | url-status=live }}</ref>

== Activism ==

=== Call to boycott the Taliban and Wahabi ideology === In the presence of lacs of Sunni Muslims during [[Urs-e-Razavi|Urs-e-Razvi]] in 2014 at the [[Bareilly Dargah]], Barelvi clerics condemned the terrorism practiced by the [[Taliban]], and the ideology of the Wahhabi. He said the world should come together to protest the killing of innocent people in the name of Islam. Ulemas should launch a campaign against the Taliban and the Wahhabis.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-12-19 |title=Clerics campaign against Wahabis, Taliban at Ala Hazrat |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/clerics-campaign-against-wahabis-taliban-at-ala-hazrat/articleshow/45578318.cms |access-date=2023-05-28 |issn=0971-8257 |archive-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817173200/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Clerics-campaign-against-Wahabis-Taliban-at-Ala-Hazrat/articleshow/45578318.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also== * [[Ahmad Raza Khan]] * [[Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri]] * [[Hamid Raza Khan]] * [[Akhtar Raza Khan]] * [[Hassan Raza Khan]]

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[http://www.alahazrat.net/ Official website of Dargah Ala Hazrat]

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