Ishmael
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Ismail · اسماعيل
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Son of Abraham named as ancestor of other circumcised nations.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Torah patriarch from whom the Arabs are traced, whose ancestry is at once the ground of Arab nobility and the point the Orientalists deny.
and that what is commonly held — the tracing of the Arabs to Ishmael and Qaḥṭān among the fathers of the Torah, and the descent of the tribes in the familiar form — is but a thing newly brought about, devised by men with ends to serve at a recent date not going back beyond the first century of the Hijrah, founded upon the register of the Imām ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in the matter of the Muslims' righ …
And if we grant its possibility, and that the Arabs showed no opposition out of respect for the caliph or fear of him, then how did the Shuʻūbīyah, and the Persians above all, keep silent about this divergence, given what the Arabs vaunted over them of the nobility of Arab descent, while the Shuʻūbīyah were searching for an argument by which to bring down the nobility of the Arabs that comes to th …
The tracing of the Arabs to Ishmael and Qaḥṭān is established by what has come in the Torah of the genealogies of the nations;