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Ishmael was the
first son of Abraham, the
common patriarch of the
Abrahamic religions,
through his wife Sara's
handmaiden Hagar (Genesis 16:3). According...
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Ishmaelites (Arabic: بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيل, romanized: Banī Ismā'īl, lit. 'sons of
Ishmael'; Hebrew: יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים, romanized: Yīšməʿēʾlīm) were a
collection of...
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Ishmael is a
character in
Herman Melville's Moby-**** (1851),
which opens with the line "Call me
Ishmael." He is the first-person
narrator of much of the...
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Ishmael (Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل, romanized: ʾIsmāʿīl) is
regarded as a
prophet and the
ancestor to the
Ishmaelites in Islam. He is the son of Ibrahim, born...
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Ishmael is a 1992
philosophical novel by
Daniel Quinn. The
novel examines the
hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and
explores themes of...
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Ishmael Scott Reed (born
February 22, 1938) is an
American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright,
editor and
publisher known for...
- Look up
Ishmael in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ishmael is the
first child of
Abraham in
Abrahamic religions.
Ishmael may also
refer to:
Ishmael son of...
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Ishmael is a 1997
novel by
Daniel Quinn that is a
followup to
Ishmael. With its time
frame largely simultaneous with
Ishmael, its plot
precedes the...
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returned after angels consoled her. She gave
birth to Abram's son
Ishmael when
Abram was eighty-six
years old. In
Genesis 17 when
Abram was ninety-nine...
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firstborn son,
through Hagar,
Ishmael,
became the
progenitor of the Ishmaelites,
generally taken to be the Arabs...
