Muhammad Khalid Masud
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Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud PhD. (born April 15, 1939) is the current Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan. Masud obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Previously he worked as the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden (the Netherlands). Until 1999, he was a professor at the Islamic Research Institute in Islamabad (Pakistan).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.
Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and is a renowned scholar and academician with knowledge of English, Arabic, Persian, French, German and Spanish languages.
- He has worked and taught at the following institutions as
- Professor: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad.
- Senior Lecturer: Centre for Islamic Legal Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
- Fulbright Fellow: Pennsylvania University, USA.
- Lecturer: École des Haute Études Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
- Professor: Collège de France, Paris.
- Professor: Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- Academic Director: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Visiting Professor: Faculty of Law, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 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)
- Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad (1995) and
- 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 (forthcoming)
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.
[edit] External links
- Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan
- The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), The Netherlands
[edit] Books by Muhammad Khalid Masud
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