Axum and the First Hijra: Early Christianity and Islam in Ethiopia
Uni-mainz.de Antiquity saw the advent of both Christianity and Islam in Ethiopia. King Ezana of Axum made in the 4th century Christianity the state religion of his empire after the Syrian monks Adesius and Frumentius had arrived on the Red Sea Coast. The first Muslims arrived in Ethiopia as early as 615 A.D. when Prophet Mohammed sent some of his…