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Islam is the second-largest religion in Ethiopia behind Christianity, with 31.3 to 35.9 percent of the total population of around 113.5 million people professing the religion as of 2022.[3][4][5]
Islam in Ethiopia dates back to the founding of the religion; in 615, when a group of Muslims were counseled by Muhammad to escape persecution in Mecca and travel to Ethiopia via modern-day Eritrea, which was ruled by Najashi, a pious Christian king. It is agreed by Islamic scholars that Najashi gave shelter to the Muslim refugees around 615–616 at Axum.[6][7] Bilal ibn Ribah, the first Muezzin, the person chosen to call the faithful to prayer, and one of the foremost companions of Muhammad, was born in Mecca to an Abyssinian (Ethiopian) mother.
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^"2007 Ethiopian census, first draft" (PDF). Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
^"Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
^"Ethiopia", The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, 2021-12-14, retrieved 2021-12-16
^"Ethiopia". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2022. (Archived 2022 edition.)
^M. Elfasi; Ivan Hrbek (1988). Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century. UNESCO. p. 560. ISBN 9789231017094.
^Ibn Ishāq (2004). Sīratu Rasūlillāh (tr. Alfred Guillaume). Oxford University Press. pp. 150–153.
Islam is the second-largest religion inEthiopia behind Christianity, with 31.3 to 35.9 percent of the total population of around 113.5 million people...
followed by Islam at 31.3%. There is also a longstanding but small Ethiopian Jewish community. Some adherents of the Baháʼí Faith likewise exist in a number...
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares...
Christianity inEthiopia is the country's largest religion with members making up 68% of the population. Christianity inEthiopia dates back to the ancient...
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الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the...
The Ethiopian Empire, also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or simply known as Ethiopia, was a sovereign state that historically encompasses the...
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Constitution Making in South Africa and Ethiopia. Routledge. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-317-14098-6. Trimingham, J. Spencer (2013). IslaminEthiopia. Routledge. p...
Spencer (1952). IslaminEthiopia. Frank Cass & Company. p. 84. ISBN 9780714617312. Trimmingham, John Spencer (1952). IslaminEthiopia. Frank Cass & Company...
The EthiopianIslamic Affairs Supreme Council (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ እስልምና ጉዳዮች ጠቅላይ ምክር ቤት; EIASC) is the central governing body of Islam representing Ethiopian...
first Islamic settlements in Africa, as a group of Muslims facing persecution in Mecca migrated to the Kingdom of Aksum. Islam spread to Ethiopia and Eritrea...
group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. They primarily live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as well as the entire southern coast...
and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day...
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J.Spencer. IslaminEthiopia (PDF). Routledge. p. 85. Insoll, Timothy. "Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern...
lit. 'new flower' [adˈdis ˈabəba] ) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. In the 2007 census, the city's population was estimated to be 2,739,551...
ISBN 9780932415196. Trimingham, J. Spencer (13 September 2013). IslaminEthiopia. Routledge. ISBN 9781136970221. Even the Stones are Burning. The Red...
Bettesworth, and C. Hitch. p. 317. "The Oromo of Ethiopia 1500-1800" (PDF). p. 180. Cerulli, Enrico (2013). Islam:Today and Yesterday. p. 189. Retrieved 2023-06-11...
the designated Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 to 1916. His baptismal name was Kifle Yaqob (ክፍለ ያዕቆብ kəflä y’aqob). Ethiopian emperors traditionally chose...
Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 24. Institute of Ethiopian Studies: 23–46. JSTOR 41965992. Trimingham, J. Spencer (2013) [1952]. IslaminEthiopia. London:...
which later encouraged a body of pro-Ethiopian Muslim literature. At the same time, Arabic poetry from the early Islamic period continues to attest to abusing...
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