Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri Razavi Ziaee (Urdu: محمد الیاس قادری رضوی ضیائی‎) known as Attar for short, is a Pakistani Islamic preacher, Pir (spiritual guider) who founded Dawat-e-Islami in 1981,[1][2][3][4] a non-political organisation aimed at preaching Quran and Sunnah, in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a follower of the Hanafi fiqh in Islamic jurisprudence, and a follower of the Sufi Barelvi Qadiriyya Sufi order, the largest in South Asia.[5]