Dr Ata Khursheed was born into a Sufi family in Bihar. He is a Librarian and worked at Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library Patna from 1985 to 1992. After that, he joined Maulana Azad Library Aligarh and is now a Senior Assistant Librarian. He is in charge of the Oriental Division and the Manuscript Division. He has MA in both Persian and Urdu and completed PhD in Urdu. His keen research interest was developed after his post-doctoral studies. He learned the research technique in literary writings, particularly compiling standard bibliographies of authentic references, 5 catalogues of manuscripts and 10 bibliographies & Indices, with 16 publications to his credit. Besides them, he has authored 23 articles in Manuscriptology, Catalogues of Manuscripts, Indices of Urdu journals, and Bibliographies on eminent personalities. Recently, he compiled the complete lectures of Sir Syed in three volumes (2022) and his complete letters in six volumes (2023).