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Bareilly: Chief cleric of the influential Dargah Aala Hazrat here, Mufti Mohammad Akhtar Raza Khan Qadiri aka Azhari Miyan, died on Friday night. Khan had founded the Barelvi movement in South Asia.Mufti Mohammad Salim Noori, spokesperson, Dargah Aala Hazrat, said, “Azhari Miyan breathed his last at his house on Friday around 7.25 pm. As news of his demise broke in Bareilly, a large number of people rushed to Dargah Aala Hazrat to pay their respects to the chief cleric. After receiving his basic education at the Manzar-e-Islam madrassa of the Dargah Aala Hazrat and Islamia Inter College, Bareilly, he pursued higher studies at Al-Azhar University, Egypt. Azhari was the great grandson and successor of one of the most distinguished sub-continental Islamic scholars in history, Ahmad Raza Khan, popularly known as Aala Hazrat..