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Ishmael's place as the "founder of the Arabs" was first stated by Josephus. [20] As Islam became established, the figure Ishmael and those descended from him, the Ishmaelites, became connected, and often equated, with the term Arab in early Jewish and Christian literature. [21]
Ishmael (Arabic: إسماعيل Ismāʿīl) is recognized as an important prophet of Islam. Like Christians and Jews, Muslims believe that Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, born to him from his wife's maidservant Hagar . [ 47 ]
The Ishmaelites (Hebrew: יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים, romanized: Yīšməʿēʾlīm; Arabic: بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيل, romanized: Banī Ismā'īl, lit. 'sons of Ishmael') were a collection of various Arab tribes, tribal confederations and small kingdoms described in Abrahamic tradition as being descended from and named after Ishmael, a prophet according to the Quran, the first son of ...
Hebrew ישמעאל “Ishmael” Ismail ( Arabic : إسماعيل , romanized : ʾIsmāʿīl ) is an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael .
Hājar or Haajar (Arabic: هاجر) is the Arabic name used to identify the wife of Abraham (Arabic: Ibrāhīm) and the mother of Ishmael (Arabic: Ismā'īl). Although not mentioned by name in the Qur'an, she is referenced and alluded to via the story of her husband. She is a revered woman in the Islamic faith. [33]
The Adnanites (Arabic: عَدْنَانِيُّون, romanized: ʿadnāniyyūn) were a tribal confederation of the Ishmaelite Arabs, who trace their lineage back to Ishmael son of the Islamic prophet and patriarch Abraham and his wife Hagar through Adnan, who originate from the Hejaz.
Hājar (Arabic: هَاجَر), known as Hagar in the Hebrew Bible, was the wife [1] of the patriarch and Islamic prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Ismā'īl . She is a revered woman in the Islamic faith. According to Muslim belief, she was a maid of the king of Egypt who gifted her to Ibrahim's wife Sarah.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Dumah (Hebrew: דּוּמָה Dūmā, "silence"; Arabic: دومة) was the sixth son of Ishmael and grandson of Abraham and Hagar. [ 1 ] Some scholars identify Dumah with the ancient city of Duma in modern Saudi Arabia .