Masood Ashraf Raja (Urdu: مسعود اشرف راجہ) is a Pakistani-born American writer.

[4][5][6] Raja moved to the United States in 1996,[7] after ten years of service in the Pakistan Army as an infantry officer.

[16][17] Raja's monograph, Constructing Pakistan, (Oxford University Press, 2010),[18] is an interesting explanation of the rise of Muslim national political identity during the British Raj and offers an innovative explanation of the genesis of the idea of Pakistan.

[23] Raja has contributed his views on various issues related to the Islamic world and Pakistan to newspapers such as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on a story on Osama bin Laden[24] and to Aljazeera English on a story about the Blasphemy law in Pakistan.

[27][28] Raja has published extensively on issues related to postcolonial studies, political Islam, and about Pakistan and the region.