Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, is interested in the relationship between text, space and narrative. His work on Islam’s arrival to Sindh in the 8th century traces the longue durée history of contestations among varied communities in South Asia. His areas of specialization include political and cultural history of Islam in South and Southeast Asia, frontier-spaces and the city in medieval South Asia, imperial and colonial historiography, and philology. He is involved in Digital Humanities projects - and is the co-founder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Columbia. His book Conquest Ex Libris: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia is forthcoming in Fall 2016 from Harvard University Press. His articles can be found at Columbia Academic Commons.