Pasha M. Khan is the Chair in Urdu Language and Culture and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He works on South Asian literatures, including literature in Urdu-Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, and Arabic. His focus is primarily on the genre of the qissah. He also works on and teaches about Sufism, the cultural history of South Asia, Urdu poetry, and the history and cultures of the South Asian and Muslim diaspora, particularly in Canada.
