Syed Anwar Husain (Bengali: সৈয়দ আনোয়ার হোসেন; 5 November 1947) is a Bangladeshi academic and historian.
[2] Husain was born on 5 November 1947 to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds from the Bogra District in Rajshahi Division, Dominion of Pakistan.
He completed his PhD from University of London in British administrative history.
He studied at the University of California, Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship.
[1] Husain joined the University of Dhaka in 1970 as a lecturer in the Department of History.