Manan Ahmed Asif

Manan Ahmed Asif
Born1971 (age 54–55)
OccupationsProfessor, 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 a 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.