Ishmael

Ishmael (Hebrew: ישמעאל Ishma ʿ el, " God hears " ), in Islam Ismail (Arabic إسماعيل Ismā ʿ īl ), is the name of a person of the Tanach, the Old Testament and the Koran.

Ishmael in the Bible

He was a son of Abraham by Hagar, a slave of Sarah (Gen 16:15 EU). He was expelled with his mother from Abraham's household, after Abraham's wife Sarah gave birth to Isaac. He then lived in the wilderness of Paran, where he married an Egyptian (Gen. 21.8 to 21 EU). Abraham's burial he returned once (Gen 25.9 EU) to Canaan, his daughter Mahalat later became the wife of Esau (Gen. 36.3 EU). According to tradition, he died at the age of 137 years (Gen 25,17 EU). He is considered the ancestor of the Arabs. Thus, the figure of Ishmael represents the original relationship between the Israelites and the Arabs; he himself is portrayed as a type of the Bedouins.

Ishmael in the Quran

In the Koran the story of Ishmael is interpreted differently:

Abraham's first wife, Sara was able to give him in old age no more offspring. After a revelation therefore he married Hagar, the servant of Sarah. During a trip to South Arabia she bore him his son Ishmael. When they reached the site of present-day Mecca, Abraham received from God in a revelation the order, Hagar and her child Ishmael to leave this place that should be for Muslims the holiest place on earth again. Abraham did this and moved on, with the conviction that God would take care of the two.

While in Genesis 22 Isaac is nearly sacrificed, can be found in the Koran no attribution. While early traditions either Isaac or Ishmael consider today most Muslims is generally agreed that there must have been traded for Ishmael. Ishmael is considered in Islam as a prophet and, together with Abraham as the builder of the Ka'ba; However, no specific prophecies by him have survived.

Through the fusion of the descendants of his son Adnan with the South Arabian descendants of the patriarch Qahtan the people of the Arabs came, the Arabic tradition. Ishmael himself was a descendant Dschorhams, a son Qahtans married. According to Islamic tradition, he was buried next to the Kaaba in Mecca.

Ismael in literature and art

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