And in recent years she has branched out from the traditional Shakespearean scholarship that made her reputation to cultural studies.
It concerns the execution of a man whom traditional scholarship identifies as James the Just.
His use of (Indian) philosophy and religious history to interpret art was at odds with traditional scholarship.
New ideas and new information are part of traditional scholarship in all disciplines.
Shahrour says that traditional scholarship on the Qur'an is unscientific.
In the wider art world, traditional scholarship is beginning to accommodate science a little more willingly.
But the question being asked is this: Can a marriage between food and traditional academic scholarship really work?
"Sure, a lot of us here don't do traditional scholarship, but that's because we don't want to."
By the first years of the 20th century, it is said that Kumemura's traditional scholarship had disappeared.
The same opinion is held in traditional Islamic scholarship.