Masud Husain Khan

Father of Urdu-Linguistics
بابائے اردو لسانیات

Masud Husain Khan
Born (1919-01-28)28 January 1919
Kaimganj, Farrukhabad
Died 16 October 2010(2010-10-16) (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
Notable work Iqbal Ki Nazari-o-Amali Sheriyat,
Muqaddama-e-Tareekh-e-Zaban-e-Urdu,
Urdu Zaban-o-Adab,
Do Neem,[1]
Roop Bengal,
Urdu Lafz ka Sautiyati aur Tajz-e-Sautiyati Mutala,[2]
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah,[3]
Yusuf Husain Khan,[4]
Wurood-e-Masood.[5]
Spouse(s) Najma Begum
Relatives Zakir Hussain,
Yousuf Hussain Khan,
Mahmud Hussain,
Gulam Rabbani Taban,
Khurshed Alam Khan,
Salman Khurshid,
Anusha Rizvi,
Rasheeduddin Khan,
Kabir Khan,
General Rahimuddin Khan,
Ijaz-ul-Haq,
Mahmood Farooqui,
Mini Mathur,
Haroon Khan Sherwani,
Rahil Begum Sherwani,
Muhammad Muzammilullah Khan,
Zahida Khatun 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 an eminent 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. He is revered as Baba-e-Urdu Lisaniyat (Urdu: بابائے اردو لسانیات Father of Urdu-Linguistics).

Family

Professor Emeritus Masud Husain Khan was born in Qaimganj, district Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. His family has a rich legacy of excellence, and 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[6]-


Masud Husain's mother, Fatima Begum was eldest sister of-


On 16 October 2010 Masud Husain Khan died in Aligarh from Parkinson's disease.[12]

Education

After finishing primary education from Jamia Millia Islamia, Masud Husain Khan 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 of Masud Husain. He also studied Hindi and Sanskrit literature and was familiar with Bengali, Persian and French languages too. Later on, in 1953 he finished his DLitt from University of Paris, France in Linguistics.

Career

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