Mohammad Salama offers a way to re-engage with the Qur’ān's indigenous and Arabic contexts as a means to decolonize the field of Qur’ānic studies. Salama puts emphasis on the Qur’ān as an indigenous code of knowledge, rather than as a text derived from a Late Antique milieu.

In this ACLA State of the Discipline Report, Alexander Key writes, "Being an Arabist elicits warm acceptance in Comparative Literature in 2015, but Arabists are still in no position to advocate for the inclusion of Arabic thinkers on our departments’ theory reading lists. Why?"

The eight essays that appear in the Theories and Methodologies section of the January 2024 issue of PMLA examine core concepts derived from the premodern compendium of Arabic thought—associated with the disciplines of aesthetics, jurisprudence, philosophy, rhetoric, theology, and more—and activate them as nodes of theoretical contemplation.

Bashkin tells the story of Amal/Tivka, a twentieth-century Iraqi Jewish woman.

Ma'na is not the same as “meaning” at all; it is its own story. 

At this point in history, a focus on literature as an object of study is informed by administrative and pedagogical necessities.

Wittgenstein’s theory of language provides a good methodology for making sense of maʿna in Classical Arabic.