Islam in Africa
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Islam in Africa
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Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa. Muslims crossed current Djibouti and Somaliland to seek refuge in present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia during the Hijrah ("Migration") to the Christian Kingdom of Aksum. Like the vast majority (90%) of Muslims in the world, most Musli
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Africa
date created:
2006-04-10T15:17:31Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T21:57:11Z
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