Stefan Winter (historian)

Stefan Winter is a Canadian historian specialising in the study of Ottoman Syria. His research revolves around Ottoman administrative policies toward the Shi‘i and ‘Alawi communities as well as Bedouin and Kurdish principalities in northern Syria and southern Anatolia, and he takes a generally Marxian approach to show how the co-optation or creation of so-called “tribal” elites by the Ottoman state authorities and their economic expansion under the twin impulse of European colonialism and Ottoman administrative reform, rather than their essential sectarian or ethnic identities, determined these groups’ fate in the early modern period. His first book, The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010; his second book, A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Syria to the Turkish Republic, 947-1938 was published by Princeton University Press in 2016. The latter was awarded the Fuat Köprülü Book Prize by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) in 2017. He also co-edited, together with Mafalda Ade, the collective volume Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period/Alep et sa province à l’époque ottomane with E.J. Brill in 2019.[1]

Stefan Winter
Born	(1970-08-16) August 16, 1970
Occupation	Academic and Scholar
Nationality	Canadian