If a non-Muslim has the same title as the present post then this gives goose pimples of serious kind to yours truly. It is absolutely useless to be professor of Islamic Studies if it has not helped you to realize that there is no god but God and Muhammed (PBUH) is His messenger. Such people, even if they do not fall in the ill-famed category of orientalists, are very tragic examples of our species. These are the people who are headed in the wrong direction in spite of the fact that they not only have the direction manual but they also have read it and they have talked about it and given in-depth discourses about it. Of course some of them try to do damage to Islam and Muslims by this erudition that they have. Here is a Fatwah about an article by one of the specimen of this category. She thinks that the Muslim dislike for dogs is merely cultural and not doctrinal. This time even erudition did not serve the party.