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This is the final version. Available on open access from Brill via the DOI in this record ; Taking as the starting point, Majid Daneshgar's Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy, I argue that the political and intellectual contexts for the study of Islam and indeed the Qur'an cannot be ignored whether the study is conducted in the "Western" or the "Muslim" academy. The construction of the categories of religion and scripture arise out of practices of colonialist knowledge; positionality of the author cannot be eliminated from the interrogative gaze. Beginning with that critique, I suggest some possible ways in which we can decolonize the study of the Muslim scripture and its experience for Muslims.

The economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been dramatically restructured over the past three decades, following the discovery of oil in 1958. Before then, pearling had been the UAE's financial mainstay &, after this industry's collapse, the country was one of the poorest in the world. A sectorwise assessment of the UAE's contemporary gross domestic product (GDP), in constrast, reveals that the UAE is now one of the richest countries in the world & that, not surprisingly, the greatest contribution to GDP comes from crude oil (49%), although construction, government services, trade, finance, insurance, real estate, & manufacturing also make significant contributions. Some of the political, cultural, social implications of this dramatic economic transformation are examined. 7 Tables. M. Maguire