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Manan Ahmed Asif

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Nationality
  
Pakistan

Known for
  
research in history

Occupation
  
Professor, Historian


Notable work
  
A Book of Conquest : The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination

Books
  
A Book of Conquest, Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination

Profiles

Manan Ahmed Asif is a historian and professor at University of Columbia in New York City. He is the founder of the South Asia blog Chapati Mystery.

Contents

Life and education

He was born in Pakistan. He is an alumnus of Punjab University, Lahore. He completed his graduation from Miami University of Ohio campus in 1997 and he did Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 2008. Asif's work often combines archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, and literary evidence and focuses on the history of South Asia.

Notable Work

  • A Book of Conquest : The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
  • Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination
  • References

    Manan Ahmed Asif Wikipedia