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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 3 1Wa g n e r, Ewald. 1998. “Harari Texts—A Literary Analysis.” In C o l l e c t a n e aA e t h i o p i c a , edited by Siegbart Uhlig and Bairu Tafla, 203–215. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH.This article analyzes Harari literary texts, situating them in broaderEthiopian and Islamic settings. The use of Harari enhances comprehensibilityand the use of Arabic places works “on a higher literary level.” Wa g n e rconcludes that Harari literature shares more with the Islamic/Arabic culturalworld than the highland Ethiopian one.Waldron, Sidney. 1974. “Social Organization and Social Control in the Wa l l e dCity of Harar, Ethiopia.” PhD diss., Columbia University.This first of three dissertations that have been written on Harar town, thiswork is the starting place for anyone who wants to understand Harari society,culture, and history.Internet SourcesMost of the Web sites on either Ethiopian history or Ethiopian Islam are sopoliticized, inaccurate, or both that none should be recommended. Nonetheless,the best one available for Harar is probably http://www. i h a r a r.com. Somephotographs of a Harari wedding may be seen at http://www. z a w a j . c o m /w e d d i n g w a y s / h a r a r.html, although even there a couple of the captions are incorrect.A few somewhat useful links for religion in Ethiopia can be found ath t t p : / / w w w. o u . e d u / m i d e a s t / c o u n t ry / e t h i o p i a . h t m .9. Race, Ideology, and Islam in Contemporary South AfricaPrimary Sources Available in EnglishAdams, C. 1968. “Muhammad ‘Abduh and Transvaal Fatwa.” In The MacdonaldP resentation Vo l u m e , edited by W. G. Shellabear, 13–29. Freeport, NY: Books forLibraries Press (Princeton University Press).This short piece is an in-depth treatment of the brief Arabic text written bythe Egyptian Islamic modernist Muhammad Abduh in response to legal questionsposed to him by South African Muslims.Esack, F. 1997. Qur’an, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of InterreligiousSolidarity against Oppre s s i o n . Oxford: Oneworld.This seminal book on the Qur’an, situated in the antiapartheid struggle of