The President of Pakistan appointed Mr. Masud as an Ad Hoc Member of Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court on 18 October 2012.
[2][3][4] Masud obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
[2] Previously he worked as the Academic Director of the 'International Institute for the study of Islam in the Modern World' (ISIM) in Leiden, Netherlands.
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 worked and taught at the following institutions as: Authored, edited and co-edited a number of books such as: He has edited and coedited: 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.