Muhammad Khalid Masud

Muhammad Khalid Masud (born 15 April 1939) is the Director General of Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad, 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 Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan.

Early life Masud obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Iqbal's Reconstruction of Ijtihad (1995) (Iqbal Academy Pakistan) 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.