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Non-Muslim Islamic scholars
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A Non-Muslim Islamic scholar is a scholar of Islam who is not a Muslim. Among the fields of study of the early Orientalists, most of whom were not Muslims, was Islam. Eventually, the term Orientalist was replaced [1] with the more modern Western scholar or Arabist.
Among the characteristic traits of the works of the earliest scholars was the Christian-apologist approach to Islam, most notably in the naming of the first translation of the Qur'an they produced: "Law of Muhammad the pseudo-prophet". While this approach was kept by scholars such as Henri Lammens, and is still adopted by contemporary scholars such as Ibn Warraq, other scholars such as Karen Armstrong have taken a more hagiographical approach. In recent times, there have emerged non-Muslim scholars with a higher familiarity for the Shi'a denomination, most notably Wilferd Madelung
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- Bernard Lewis
- Juan Cole
- John Medows Rodwell
- Abraham Hinckelmann
- Herman of Carinthia
- Robert of Ketton
- Theodor Bibliander
- Christopher Melchert
- Maxime Rodinson
- Gregor Schoeler
- Harald Motzki
- List of Islamic studies scholars
- Section 6. Orientalists/Non-Muslims lists of over 200 western and eastern non-Muslim scholars and writers on Islam, spanning almost 1,400 years, usually annotated with their dates and country, titles of their chief writings on Islam, and often other information.