Rashid Shaz (Urdu: راشد شاز; c. ) is an Indian Islamic scholar at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. His books include: Idrak Zawal-e-Ummat,^[6] lastam pokh,^[7] kitabul Urooj, and Manifesto of United Islam.

Rashid Shaz is an ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue of Culture among Civilizations ^[8] and a professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University,^[9] India. In 2008, he released in Monaco an important founding document “Calling for a New Dialogue between Islam and Christianity”.^[10] Shaz has also engaged with the debate on shibh-ahle-kitab. In his book ادراک اسباب تراجع الامۃ(۲ مجلد) he takes up the issue from the point where Al-Baironi and Shahrastani had left. In 2004, he motivated many enlightened intellectuals in Abrahamic traditions to debate the common issues on futureislam.com.^[11]

In 1992, while the Oslo Peace Accord was in the air, he went on a peace mission to London and Washington DC to convey to the policy makers in these capitals about the Muslim sentiments on Jerusalem. In 1994, he launched from New Delhi a weekly newspaper Milli Times International that ceased publishing in the year 2001.^[12][13]

Professor Rashid Shaz condemned the silence of Aligarh on lynching incidents.^[14]