Muhammad Khalid Masud (born 15 April 1939) is the Director General of Islamic Research Institute,

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, Pakistan. The President of Pakistan appointed Mr. Masud as an Ad Hoc Member of Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court on 18 October 2012. On 1 November 2012, he took the oath administered by Chief Justice of Pakistan as an Ad Hoc Member of Shariat Appellate Bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan. Formerly he was Chairman (2004–2010) of the

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.Profile of Muhammad Khalid Masud
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Early life

Masud obtained his PhD in

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. Previously he worked as the Academic Director of the 'International Institute for the study of Islam in the Modern World' (ISIM) in

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. Until 1999, he was a professor at the Islamic Research Institute in

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). His publications include ''Shatibi's Philosophy of Law'' (rev. ed. 1995), ''Iqbal's Reconstruction of Ijtihad'' (1995), Islamic Legal Interpretation: The Muftis and their Fatwas (with B. Messick and D. Powers, 1996), and the edited volume ''Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablîghî Jamâ'at as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal'' (2000). He has been an editor of the journal ''Islamic Studies''.

Career

He has worked and taught at the following institutions as: *Professor: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University,

. *Senior Lecturer: Centre for Islamic Legal Studies,

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. *Lecturer: École des Haute Études Sciences Sociales,

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. *Professor:

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. *Professor: Leiden University,

*Academic Director: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World,

. *Visiting Professor: Faculty of Law, International Islamic University,

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Authored, edited and co-edited a number of books such as: *''Muhsin-i A'zam'' (1963) *''Islamic Legal Philosophy'' (1977) *''Iqbal's concept of Ijtihad'' (1975) *''Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law'' (1996)Books by Muhammad Khalid Masud on goodreads.com website
Retrieved 19 November 2022 *''Iqbal's Reconstruction of Ijtihad'' (1995) (Iqbal Academy Pakistan)
Google Books website, Retrieved 19 November 2022 *''Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis And Their Fatwas'' (1996) (Oxford University Press) *''Muslim Jurists' Quest for the Normative Basis of Shariah'' (Leiden : ISIM) He has edited and coedited: *''Islamic Legal Interpretations'' (Harvard, 1996) *''Travellers in Faith'' (Brill, 2000) *''Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements'' (Brill 2006) *''Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates'' (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh 2009) Authored around ninety-five research articles, chapters and encyclopedia articles published in journals of international repute; included as chapters in books edited at el or co-authored and/or in Encyclopedias.

References

External links

Council of Islamic Ideology, PakistanMuhammad Khalid Masud at Google Scholar website
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