{"id":2992,"date":"2018-03-12T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2018-03-12T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:25:52","slug":"manan-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/manan-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Manan Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2993 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2018\/03\/Ahmed_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2018\/03\/Ahmed_2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2018\/03\/Ahmed_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2018\/03\/Ahmed_2-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, is interested in the relationship between text, space and narrative. His areas of specialization include Muslim intellectual history\u00a0in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, early modern and modern South Asia. His\u00a0monograph,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Conquest-Chachnama-Muslim-Origins\/dp\/0674660110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2016) is an intellectual history of a text\u2014\u00a0the early thirteenth century Persian history called Chachnama\u2014 and a place\u2014 the medieval city of Uch Sharif in southern Punjab, Pakistan. From the vantage\u00a0point of that text and space, the book presents a vision of being Muslim in South Asia over this longue dur\u00e9e, while resisting the narratives of \u2018foreign-ness\u2019\u00a0and \u2018otherness\u2019 that assemble around the Indian Muslim subject. His current research is a comparative, global project on philosophy of history stretching from the thirteenth through nineteenth century, focusing on Arabic, Persian and Urdu histories and their\u00a0relationship to the emergence of \u201cWorld History\u201d (Weltgeschichte) in the nineteenth century. He recently co-organized two scholarly gatherings in regards to this project\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xpmethod.plaintext.in\/events\/HistoryofDifference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA History of Difference: Piety and Space in Early Modern West Asia\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xpmethod.plaintext.in\/events\/IndoGhuria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indo-Ghuria: Continuities and Ruptures in 12th-13th-Century South and Central Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is the co-founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xpmethod.plaintext.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Columbia<\/a>. His work in Digital History focuses on spatial and textual understandings of medieval past\u2014 a recent collaborative project is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emilyfuhrman.co\/interactive\/F2015002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Delivering post by foot in medieval north India.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0He is also guiding the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xpmethod.plaintext.in\/embodied-space-lab\/mwmp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cManuscripts of the Muslim World\u201d<\/a>\u00a0digitization project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, is interested in the relationship between text, space and narrative. His areas of specialization include Muslim intellectual history\u00a0in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, early modern and modern South Asia. 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