So Mahgraye wrote this
................On the other hand, I would name: Crone, Cook, Calder, Rippin, Hawting, Shoemaker, Dye, Segovia, de Prémare, Robinson, Powers, Reynolds, Melchert, to name a few. They all are leading scholars in the field
and yeezevee quipped on those scholars
Well they are all shifting sands and trying to make the sand dorms which will fall again., THEY DO NOT TOUCH THE SUBJECT OF AUTHENTICITY OF MUHAMMAD & AUTHENTICITY OF HADITH.............
And Mahgraye says
I mean no disrespect dear Yeezevee, but your comment strongly implies that you have not read anyone I named, or anyone in this filed for that matter
................ but please do some reading, because your claim is just inaccurate. .......
Indeed Mahgraye is right in pointing out that I HAVE NOT READ WHAT THOSE SCHOLARS WROTE COMPLETELY and I must read all of their contributions ... It does take enormous time to sieve through the scholarly religious literature ...anyway I will try again I remove
Crone, from that list ..
Cook,: Michael Allan Cook FBA (born in 1940) is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3jAPSRKkIWorksHagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, 1977, with Patricia Crone.
Muhammad (Past Masters), 1983.
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction, 2000.
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, 2001 (Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award).
Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction (Themes in Islamic History), 2003.
Early Muslim Dogma : A Source-Critical Study, 2003.
Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition, 2004.
A Brief History of the Human Race, 2005.
Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective, 2014
Calder: Norman Calder (1950 – February 13, 1998) was a British historian and Islamic scholar.
Works
Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (1993).
Interpretation and Jurisprudence in Medieval Islam (2006), with Jawid Mojaddedi.
Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era (2014).
Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (2012), edited with Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin.
Rippin, :Andrew Lawrence Rippin, FRSC (16 May 1950 in London, England –
29 November 2016)[1] was a Canadian scholar of Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj3ywpaP4zEAndrew Rippin, Jan Knappert (eds.), Textual Sources for the Study of Islam, Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1987.
Andrew Rippin (ed.), Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'an, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988.
Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, New York : Routledge, 1990.
Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Qur'an, Style and Contents, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
Andrew Rippin, The Qur'an and its Interpretative Tradition, (Variorum Collected Studies), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001.
Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin (eds.), Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, New York : Routledge, 2003.
Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. 2005.
Andrew Rippin (ed.), Defining Islam: A Reader, London; Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2007.
Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Islamic world, New York: Routledege, 2010.
Andrew Rippin, Jawid Mojaddedi (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.
Hawting: Gerald R. Hawting (born 1944) is a British historian and Islamicist. Hawting's teachers were Bernard Lewis and John Wansbrough. He received his Ph.D. in 1978. He is Emeritus Professor for the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London
Works
The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 (1986).
"John Wansbrough, Islam, and monotheism" (1997).
The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History (1999).
As editor and co-author:
Approaches to the Quran (1993).
The Development of Islamic Ritual (2006)
Shoemaker,: Stephen Shoemaker (Ph.D. '97, Duke University) teaches courses on the Christian traditions. His primary interests lie in the ancient and early medieval Christian traditions, and more specifically in early Byzantine and Near Eastern Christianity. His research focuses on early devotion to the Virgin Mary, Christian apocryphal literature, and the relations between Near Eastern Christianity and formative Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cO6mztBp4Stephen J. ShoemakerBooksThe Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 2018
Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion 2016
The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam 2011
Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption 2002
Dye, Segovia,: Carlos Andrés Segovia 2nd Marquis of Salobreña s a philosopher and a historian of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and formative Islam.
Works
Carlos A. Segovia (2005). The Concept of Being in Islamic Philosophy: A Study on Mulla Sadra's "Kitab al-Masha'ir." (In Spanish.) Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. ISBN 84-338-3647-1
Carlos A. Segovia (2006). A Selection from Avicenna's "Ilahiyyat". (In Spanish.) Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva. ISBN 84-9742-521-9
Carlos A. Segovia (2006). Against Heterodoxes: A Spanish Translation of al-Ash'ari's "Kitab al-Luma.'"]. (In Spanish.) Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva. ISBN 84-9742-522-7
Carlos A. Segovia (2007). 'The Qur'an: A Thematic Anthology. (In Spanish.) Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva. ISBN 978-84-9742-657-2
Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié, eds. (2012). The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-0158-6
Carlos A. Segovia (2013).Por una interpretación no cristiana de Pablo de Tarso: El redescubrimiento contemporáneo de un judío mesiánico. Prólogo de Antonio Piñero Sáenz. iTunes Store & iBookstore (Apple ID: 599221707).
Carlos A. Segovia (2013). Pablo de Tarso, ¿judío o cristiano?. Prólogo de Antonio Piñero Sáenz. Madrid: Atanor Ediciones. ISBN 978-849406-259-9.
Carlos A. Segovia (2015). The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity. JCIT 4. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-040589-7.
de Prémare, : Alfred-Louis of Prémare norn in 1930 in Tours and died on October 10 , 2006 Is a historian and academic French , specialist language and Arab culture and history of Islam
Works
Maghreb and Andalusia in the XIV th century. Travel Notes of an Andalusian in Morocco 1344-1345 , Lyon University Press, 1981;
Sidi 'Abd-er-Rahman el-Mejdub , Paris, CNRS, and Rabat, SMER, 1985 (cover: drawing by Richard de Premare );
The oral tradition of Mejdûb , Aix-en-Provence, Edisud, 1986;
Joseph and Muhammed. Chapter 12 of the Koran , Aix-en-Provence, Publications of the University of Provence, 1989;
Arabic-French dictionary (Moroccan language and culture) , 12 vols. (with coll.), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1993-1999;
The Foundations of Islam. Between writing and history , Paris, Le Seuil, 2002;
The Origins of the Quran, Questions from Yesterday, Today's Approaches , Paris, Téraèdre, ("Islam in Debates"), 2004, ( ISBN 2-912868-19-X ) .
The first Islamic scriptures , under the responsibility of Alfred-Louis Prémare, Journal of Muslim worlds and the Mediterranean , n o 58, 1990. [ archive ]
Robinson, 
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Powers, : David S. Powers (Ph.D., Princeton, 1979) is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and long-suffering Cleveland Indians fan. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979 and began teaching at Cornell in the same year. He currently holds positions as a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern, an Adjunct Professor at the Cornell Law School, and Director of the Medieval Studies Program. His courses deal with Islamic civilization, Islamic history and law, and classical Arabic texts, and his research focuses on the emergence of Islam and Islamic legal history. He is founding editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society.
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Zayd (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance. University of California Press, 1986. Translated into Bahasa Indonesia as Peralihin Kekayaan dan Politk Kekuasaan: Kritik Histois Hukum Waris (LkiS, Yogyakarta, 2001)
ARTICLES
“Inheritance.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. Ed. Andrew Rippin. New York: Oxford University Press (2015).
“Adoption,” In Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. Ed. John O. Voll. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, April 2016
“From Nuzi to Medina: Q. 4:12b, Revisited,” in Structures of Power: Law and Gender across the Ancient Near East and Beyond, ed. Ilan Peled, Oriental Institute Seminars, vol. 12 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 2016) -- forthcoming.
“Law and Sufism in the Maghrib, ca. 829/1425,” in Cynthia Robinson and Amalia Zomeno (eds.), Construcciones de una Devocion: Religiosidad en la Granada Nazari (forthcoming).
“Finality of Prophecy,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, ed. A. Silverstein and G. Stroumsa, Oxford University Press, 2015.
“’A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third’: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis – and Beyond,” in Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts, edited by Behnam Sadeghi, Asad Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, and Adam Silverstein. Leiden: Brill: 2014 (co-authored with Pavel Pavlovitch)
“Wael B. Hallaq on the Origins of Islamic Law: A Review Essay,” Islamic Law and Society, 17:1 (2010),
"Demonizing Zenobia: The Legend of al-Zabba' in Islamic Sources", in Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Economy, Society, and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch (Brill, 2010)
"The Abolition of Adoption in Islam, Reconsidered," in Droit et Religions Annuaire 4 (2009-10), 97-107
"From the Mi`yar of al-Wansharisi to the New Mi`yar of al-Wazzani," co-authored with Etty Terem, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 33 (2007), 235-260
"Law and Custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: On the Disinheritance of Women," in Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World: Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish (E.J. Brill, 2006), 17-40.
"Qadis and their Courts: An Historical Survey," with M. Khalid Masud and Rudolph Peters, in Dispensing Justice in Muslim Courts: Qadis and their Courts, ed. M. Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, David S. Powers (E.J. Brill, 2006), 1-46.
"Women and Courts in the Maghrib, 1100-1500, in Dispensing Justice in Muslim Courts: Qadis and their Courts, ed. M. Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, David S. Powers (E.J. Brill, 2006), 383-410.
“Women and Divorce in the Islamic West: Three Cases,” Hawwa, vol. 1:1 (2003), 29-45.
"Parents and their Minor Children: Familial Politics in the Middle Maghrib in the Eighth/Fourteenth Century," Continuity and Change, August 2001, 177-200.
"The Islamic Family Endowment (Waqf)," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 32:4 (1999), 1167-90.
"Introduction: The Islamic Inheritance System," Islamic Law and Society, 5:3 (1998): 285-90 [theme issue]
"The Art of the Judicial Opinion: On Tawlij in Fifteenth-Century Tunis," Islamic Law and Society, 5:3 (1998): 359-81.
EDITED VOLUMES
Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, ed. O. Arabi, D.S. Powers and S. Spectorsky (E.J. Brill, 2013)
Dispensing Justice in Muslim Courts: Qadi and their Courts, ed. M. Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, David S. Powers (E.J. Brill, 2006)
Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and their Fatwas, ed. M. Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick and David Powers (Harvard University Press, 1996)
Reynolds, : Gabriel Said Reynolds Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, Notre Dame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g_bjux7sI0Recent Publications
Books:
2017. The Qurʾan and the Bible: Revised Qurʾan Translation of Ali Quli Qaraʾi annotated with Biblical Texts and Commentary by Gabriel Said Reynolds. Under contract with Yale University Press
2016. Co-Editor, contributor. The Qurʾan Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qurʾānic Passages. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
2012. The Emergence of Islam. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. (Arabic translation in progress)
2011. Editor. New Perspectives on the Qurʾān: The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context 2. London: Routledge.
2010. The Qurʾān and Its Biblical Subtext. London: Routledge.
2010. Introduced, Translated, and Annotated. The Critique of Christian Origins: Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s (d. 415/1025) Islamic Essay on Christianity. Edited Samir Khalil Samir. Provo UT: BYU Pres.
2008. Editor. The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context. London: Routledge. Arabic translation: Al-Qurʾān fī muḥīṭihi al-tārīkhī. Trans. Saʿd Saʿdī and ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Saʿdī. Beirut: Dār al-Jamal, 2011.
2004. A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: ʿAbd al-Jabbār ab d aabdj;sand the ‘Critique of Christian Origins’. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Book Chapters:
“Sourates 4-6,” Le Coran des historiens (Paris, Le Cerf, forthcoming).
2016. “A Flawed Prophet? Noah in the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic Commentary,” Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, ed. M. Daneshgar and W. Saleh (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 260-73.
2011. “On the Qurʾān’s Māʾida Passage and the Wanderings of the Israelites,” The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam in Memory of John Wansbrough, ed. B. Lourié, C.A. Segovia, and A. Bausi (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2011), 91-108.
2010. “Reading the Qurʾan as Homily: The Case of Sarah’s Laughter,” The Qurʾān in Context, ed. A. Neuwirth, N. Sinai, and M. Marx (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 585-92.
2008. “ʿAbd al-Jabbār,” The Islamic World, ed. A. Rippin (London: Routledge, 2008), 338-44.
2006. “Redeeming the Adam of the Qurʾān,” Arabische Christen – Christen in Arabien, ed. D. Kreikenbom, F.-Ch. Muth and J. Thielmann (Frankfurt: Lang, 2006), 71-83.
2005. “The Eschaton and Justice in the Thought of Mulla Sadra,” Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Transcendent Philosophy (Tehran, Iran: 2005).
2001. “A Philosophical Odyssey: Ghazzâlî’s Intentions of the Philosophers,” Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, ed. D. Thomas (Richmond: Curzon, 2001), 37-50.
Articles
2017. “Noah’s Lost Son in the Qurʾan,” Arabica 64 (2017), 1-20.
2017. “Gavin D’Costa, Vatican II, and Islam,” (solicited) Nova et Vetera 16 (2017), 291-99.
2014. “Islamic Studies in the North America, or Reflections on the Academic Study of the Qurʾan,” Islamochristiana 40, 55-73.
2014. “On the Presentation of Christianity in the Qurʾan and the Many Aspects of Qurʾanic Rhetoric,” al-Bayān 12: 42-54.
2013. “The Qurʾān and the Apostles of Jesus,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 76:1-19.
2012. “On the Qurʾan and the Theme of Jews as ‘Killers of the Prophets’,” al-Bayān 10: 9-34.
2011. “Le problème de la chronologie du Coran,” Arabica 58: 477-502.
2011. “Remembering Muḥammad,” (solicited) Numen 58: 188-206.
2010. “On the Qurʾānic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (taḥrīf) and Christian anti-Jewish Polemic,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 130:, 1-14.
Biography
Gabriel Said Reynolds is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at Notre Dame. His research is focused above all on the Qur'an and Muslim-Christian relations. He wrote a dissertation on the remarkable Islamic history of Christianity of ʿAbd al-Jabbar (d. 1025); the dissertation won the Field Prize at Yale and was published (Brill 2004) as A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu. Reynolds also prepared an introduction and translation of this history, published by (BYU 2008) as The Critique of Christian Origins.
At Notre Dame, Reynolds has organized two international conferences (2005, 2009) on the Qur'ān, and edited the acts of the conferences as The Qur'an in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008) and New Perspectives on the Qur'an: The Qur'an in Its Historical Context 2 (Routledge 2011). In 2012-13 Prof. Reynolds directed, along with Mehdi Azaiez, “The Qurʾan Seminar” a year-long project with a team of 28 international scholars, which led to a collaborative commentary, The Qurʾan Seminar Commentary, published by De Gruyter. Currently, Prof. Reynolds serves on the Executive Board of The International Qurʾanic Studies Association (iqsaweb.org).
Prof. is the author of The Qur'an and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge 2010). He has also published The Emergence of Islam (Fortress, 2012), an introduction to the Qurʾan, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, or the classical period of Islam. Currently, he is working on The Qurʾan and the Bible, a Biblically-minded commentary on the Qurʾān which will be published by Yale University Press in 2017.
Melchert, : Christopher Melchert is an American professor and scholar of Islam, specialising in Islamic movements and institutions, especially in the ninth and tenth centuries C.E. A prolific author, he is University Lecturer in Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute, and is a Fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Melchert received a Ph.D. in History (1992) from the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis was later published as a book, titled The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, with Brill Publishers, Leiden. Melchert more recently published a book on Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sunni jurist.
Having written about whether women can be prayer leaders according to the early Sunni and Shii jurists, he is one of the few expert historians who has written authoritatively on the question
Selected publications
Books
The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.[2] (Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 4). Leiden: Brill, 1997.[3]
Reviewed by W. B. Hallaq in International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 2, (1999): 278-280
Reviewed by P. Sanders in American Journal of Legal History 43, Part 1 (1999): 98[4]
Ahmad ibn Hanbal.[5] Oxford: Oneworld, 2006[6] and 2012.[7] (in 116 World Cat libraries)[8]
Academia
The formation of the Sunni schools of law, ninth–tenth centuries CE. 1992 Ph.D thesis, University of Pennsylvania
Religious Policies of the Caliphs from al-Mutawakkil to al-Muqtadir, AH 232-295/AD 847-908, in Islamic Law and Society, 1996 - Brill
The transition from asceticism to mysticism at the middle of the ninth century CE, in Studia Islamica, 1996 - JSTOR
The adversaries of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, in Arabica, 1997 - Springer
Islamic law, in Oklahoma City University Law Review, 1998 - HeinOnline
How Hanafism Came to Originate in Kufa and Traditionalism in Medina, in Islamic Law and Society, 1999 - Brill
Ibn Mujāhid and the establishment of seven Qur'anic readings, in Studia Islamica, 2000 - JSTOR
Traditionist-jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law, in Islamic Law and Society, 2001 - Brill
The Ḥanābila and the Early Sufis, in Arabica, 2001 - JSTOR
Sufis and competing movements in Nishapur, in Iran, 2001 - JSTOR
Various additional papers.[9]
PS: well I will edit this post with time..
Topic: Qur'anic studies today