Michael Winter was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard's Center for Middle East Studies from June to August 2010, where he researched connections between Turkish and Arab 'ulama from the 16^th to 18^th centuries. In September 2009, he participated at an international conference held at Tokyo University devoted to Sada/Ashraf (the Prophet's descendents) and delivered a paper on "The Ashraf and Naqib al-Ashraf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis,". During the same visit in Tokyo, Winter lectured in a workshop at Sophia University on Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Religious and Social Aspects. Winter chaired a panel on social and cultural aspects of 'ulama in the later Middle Ages at the third World Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES), held in Barcelona in July 2010, and delivered a paper entitled "'Ulama of Damascus and Ottoman 'Ulama during the late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods: Relations, Comparisons and Influences."   

email: winter@post.tau.ac.il