text: Masood Ali Khan
  
  Masood Ali Khan, also known as M.A. Khan, (born 15 March 1947 in Hyderabad, India) (M.A., Ph.D.) is a scholar, historian and a writer on Islamic history, culture, and religion. He is currently working as acting director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Southern Regional Centre, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He writes on social problems of Indian Muslims, Indian diaspora, sociology of migration, and Urdu press and journalism.
  
  Books
  
  Khan has written books and articles in research journals, has supervised and reviewed half a dozen books and contributed about 100 articles in Urdu on social problems of Indian Muslims. He has presented research papers in the United States, UK, Canada, France, Turkey and Malaysia. He served as a consultant to research projects commissioned by the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Council of Historical Research. Some of his books include:
   Encyclopedia of world geography
   Cultural Sociology of India
   Encyclopaedia of Islam
   Encyclopaedia of Sufism (12 volume set)
   International encyclopaedia of librarianship
   The expansion of Islam
   The Islamic Fundamentalism
   Minorities in India
   The Quranic studies
   Mystics and mysticism in Islam
   Islam in modern India
   Social work and social policy (concepts and methods)
   Religious doctrine of Islam
   Islam in the Arabic world
   Islam (birth and origin)
   Islam (rise and growth)
   Life and times of Prophet Muhammad
   Women in Islam
   Islamic laws
   Islam in the modern world
   Traditions in Islam
   History and sociology in India
   The methods of social research
   Women and human rights
   Perspectives on Indo-Pak relations
  
  See also
  Hyderabadi Muslims 
  Muhammad Hamidullah
  
  Reference list
  
  External links
  
  List of his books
  List of his books
  
  Category:1947 births
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  Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
  Category:20th-century Indian historians
  Category:Indian male writers
  Category:International relations scholars
  Category:Indian magazine editors