Masud Husain Khan
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Father of Urdu-Linguistics بابائے اردو لسانیات Masud Husain Khan |
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28 January 1919 Kaimganj, Farrukhabad |
| Died | 16 October 2010 (aged 91) Aligarh |
| Cause of death | Parkinson's disease |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Organization |
Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Osmania University, Kashmir University, University of California, Berkeley, Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu, All India Muslim Education Conference, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library |
| Notable work | Iqbal Ki Nazari-o-Amali Sheriyat, Muqaddama-e-Tareekh-e-Zaban-e-Urdu, Urdu Zaban-o-Adab, Do Neem, Roop Bengal, Urdu Lafz ka Sautiyati aur Tajz-e-Sautiyati Mutala, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Yusuf Husain Khan, Wurood-e-Masood. |
| Spouse(s) | Najma Begum |
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Zakir Hussain, Yousuf Hussain Khan, Mahmud Hussain, Gulam Rabbani Taban, Khurshed Alam Khan, Salman Khurshid, Anusha Rizvi, General Rahimuddin Khan, Ijaz-ul-Haq, Mahmood Farooqui, Haroon Khan Sherwani, Rahil Begum Sherwani |
| Awards |
Sahitya Akademi Award, Kul Hind Bahadur Shah Zafar Award, Ghalib Award, Karachi Niaz Fatehpuri Award |
Masud Husain Khan (28 January 1919 – 16 October 2010) was a linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi.
Masud Husain Khan was born in Qaimganj, district Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. His family is sometimes referred to as the Family of Vice-Chancellors, having provided Vice-Chancellors to four different universities across the Indian subcontinent.
Masud Husain's father Muzaffar Husain Khan (1893–1921) completed his education from Islamia High School Etawah and Mohammadan Anglo Oriental (M.A.O.) College, Aligarh. He started his judicial career in Hyderabad but died of tuberculosis at the early age of twenty-eight. Masud Husain was just two years old when he lost his father. Muzaffar Husain Khan was eldest brother of-
Masud Husain's mother, Fatima Begum was eldest sister of-
On 16 October 2010 Masud Husain Khan died in Aligarh from Parkinson's disease.
After finishing primary education from Jamia Millia Islamia, Husain studied in Dhaka for a while. He completed his BA from Zakir Husain College, Delhi University and MA from Aligarh Muslim University. He did his PhD under the guidance of Professor Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui and wrote his magnum opus Muqaddama-e-tareekh-e-zaban-e-Urdu which was later published as a book and became a landmark work. He also studied Hindi and Sanskrit literature and was familiar with Bengali, Persian and French too. Later on, in 1953 he finished his DLitt from University of Paris in Linguistics.
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