But Poliakov s views haven t He has said a lot of postiive things about Muhammad e g that Muhammad was very resepectful towrds the Jews Infact I have yet to verify the source in which Poliakov accuses Islam of anti semitism In anycase Bernard Lewis is an exceptional scholar because he is a scholar both on Islam ic history and antisemtism Mark Cohen is also a scholar on Jews under Islam Most of the rest of the scholars quoted are either scholars on Islam or antisemitism