cbec SIUT Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture Pakistan Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation Muhammad Khalid Masud Biosketch Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud, currently Director General, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad is former Chairperson of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan (2004-2010) and Professor and Academic Director of ISIM, Leiden, The Netherlands (1999-2003). He obtained MA in 1962 from Punjab University, and MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University respectively in 1969 and 1973. He has taught Islamic Law at various universities in Pakistan, Nigeria (1980-1984), France (1989, 1997), Malaysia (2003) and Netherlands (1999-2003). His special interests include Islamic legal theory and history, human rights, history of Muslim Spain, interfaith dialogue, and global ethics. He has published extensively and has more than 100 articles including chapters in international academic research journals, books and encyclopedias on Islamic law and contemporary issues and trends in Muslim societies. His book length publications include Shatibi’s Philosophy of Islamic Law (1995), and Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad (1995). He has edited Islamic Laws and Women in the Modern World (1996 ), Travellers in Faith: Studies on Tablighi Jama’at (Brill, 2000), Renaissance of Muslim Thought in 18th Century India (2008). He translated T. Izutsu’s Ethical Terms in the Quran into Urdu (2005). He co-edited Islamic Legal Interpretations: The Muftis and their Fatwas (Harvard 1996), with Brinkley, Messick and David Powers, Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements (Brill 2006), with David S. Powers and Ruud Peters, Islam and Modernity, An Introduction to Key Issues and Debates (Edinburgh 2009), with Armando Salvatore and Martin van Bruinessen. While Shari’a Today is in the process of publication, his Nuqush-e Tagore, an Urdu translation of Rabindranath Nath Tagore’s Fireflies has been published recently in 2012. Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture 5th Floor, Dewan Farooq Medical Centre, SIUT, M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi, Pakistan Phone # (92-21) 32726338 Fax: (92-21) 35206738 Email Address: [email protected] Website: www.siut.org/bioethics .