Manan Ahmed Asif

Manan Ahmed Asif
Born1971
Occupation(s)Professor, Historian
Known forresearch in history
Notable workA Book of Conquest : The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India

Manan Ahmed Asif, also known as Manan Ahmed, is a Pakistani historian of South Asia and West Asia. He is an associate professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.

He is the founder of the South Asia blog Chapati Mystery and co-founder of Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. Since 2021, he is co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.