According to both Biblical and Qur'anic tradition, Abraham had two wives: Sarah and Hagar. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The Qur’an ( القرآن, literally "the recitation" also sometimes transliterated as Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran Abraham ( Ashkenazi   Avrohom or Avruhom; ابراهيم, {{Unicode|Ibrāhīm}}; Ge'ez: Sarah (; Arabic: سارة, Sārah; "a woman of high rank" is the wife of Abraham as described in the Hebrew Bible In the Bible Hagar is Sarah's Maid Servant (not Abraham's Wife) who was offered to Abraham to produce an off-spring. He had a son by each women: Ishmael from Hagar and Isaac from Sarah. According to the Hebrew Bible, Isaac ( Hebrew: Yitzchak יִצְחָק, Standard Yiẓḥaq Circumstances forced Abraham to leave Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness of Paran. It was stated by God that each son would be the father of a nation. The Israelites descended from Isaac and the Ishmaelites from Ishmael.

In Islamic traditon the Ishmaelites are known as the Banu Ismail.

The Ishmaelites are sometimes identified with the Arab people although this is an over-simplification. The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding Arab tradition traces the original Arabs of southern Arabia to Qahtan and the Mustaribs (the people of northern Arabia who assimilated into the Arabs) to Adnan. Qahtani (قحطان transliterated: Qahtan refers to al Aribah' or the Semites who inhabited Yemen. Attempts to harmonize Arabic tradion with Judaeo-Christian tradition led to a hermeneutical fable identifying Adnan's ancestor, A'raq al-Thara with Ishmael.

In Judaeo-Christian tradition the Ishmaelites are no longer mentioned after the time of King David having assimilated into other peoples. Some are shown in Judges as having become part of the Midianites. Others are mentioned living amongst the Israelites. The Hagarites split off as a separate group from the rest of the Ishmaelites and were conquered and assimilated by the Israelites during the reign of Saul. The Book of Jubilees claims that the The sons of Ishmael intermingled with the children of Keturah from Abraham And was called Arabs and Ishmaelities:

Book of Jubilees 20:13 And Ishmael and his sons, and the sons of Keturah and their sons, went together and dwelt from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in all the land which is towards the East facing the desert. According to the Hebrew Bible, Keturah or Ketura ( was the woman whom Abraham, the Patriarch of the Israelites, married after the Abraham ( Ashkenazi   Avrohom or Avruhom; ابراهيم, {{Unicode|Ibrāhīm}}; Ge'ez: Jubilee The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלים sometimes called the Lesser Genesis ( Leptogenesis) is an ancient Jewish religious work considered According to the Hebrew Bible, Keturah or Ketura ( was the woman whom Abraham, the Patriarch of the Israelites, married after the The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran ( Hebrew מדבר פארן Midbar Par'an) is quite likely the place where the Israelites spent part of their Babylon was a City-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs, and Ishmaelites. The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding

Some commentators have understood the accounts to mean that the term "Ishmaelite" included descendants of Keturah's sons or was interchangeable with the terms "Midianite" and "Medanite", names of two of the tribes descended from Keturah.

Offspring of Ishmael

References

External Links

• NET Bible Under Ishmaelites
• Tektonics site About Ishmaelites and Medianites

Sefer haYashar (midrash, a Hebrew Midrash known in English translation mostly as The Book of Jasher.

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