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According to Islamic tradition, some members of Muhammad's family and some of his early converts had taken refuge with the Aksumites during the troubled years preceding the Prophet's rise to power, and Aksum was exempted from the jihad, or holy war, as a result.
It is considered 'the fourth holy city' of Islam, having been founded by a holy missionary from the Arabic Peninsula.
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