Dr. Qasmi is a Associate Professor of History at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is part of the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He received his PhD from the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University in March 2009, and joined LUMS in 2012. He is the author of Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahl al-Qur’an Movements in the Punjab (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011). His second monograph, The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan (London: Anthem Press, 2014), was the recipient of Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) Peace Prize in 2015.