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  Ishmael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Qur'an, Ishmael is considered one of the prophets of Islam.
In Islam, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) from his second wife Hagar, and an appointed prophet of God.
Ishmael is mentioned in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and is considered a lesser Prophet.
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 Ishmael (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ishmael begins by telling the man that his life, which began in the wild, was spent mostly in a zoo and a menagerie, and since had been spent in the gazebo of the man that extricated him from physical captivity.
Ishmael proceeds to tease from his pupil the premises of the story being enacted by the Takers: that they are the pinnacle of evolution (or creation), that the world was made for man, and that man is here to conquer and rule the world.
Ishmael and his student go on to discuss how, for the ancient Semetic herders among whom the tale originated, the story of Cain killing Abel symbolizes the Leavers being killed off and their lands taken so that it could be put under cultivation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishmael_(novel)   (2252 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - ISHMAEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael was circumcised at the age of thirteen (Gen. xvii.
Ishmael was about to die of thirst when an angel showed his mother a well, repeating to her at the same time that Ishmael would become a great nation.
Ishmael was not within; his wife refused Abraham food, and beat her children and cursed her husband within Abraham's hearing.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=277&letter=I   (823 words)

  
 Ishmael - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ISHMAEL (a Hebrew name meaning "God hears"), in the Bible, the son of Abraham by his Egyptian concubine Hagar, and the eponym of a number of (probably) nomadic tribes living outside Palestine.
22, 3) - Sennacherib conquered a fortress of "Aribi" named Adumu, - and Jetur is obviously the Ituraea of classical geographers.4 "Ishmael," therefore, is used in a wide sense of the wilder, roving peoples encircling Canaan from the north-east to the south, related to but on a lower rank than the "sons" of Isaac.
5 According to the Mahommedans, Ishmael, who is recognized as their ancestor, lies buried with his mother in the Kaaba in Mecca.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ishmael   (513 words)

  
 Ishmael (1) - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
His cherished, though mistaken, belief about Ishmael, his doubts regarding the possibility of Sarah's motherhood, and the first faint glimmer of the real meaning of God's promise, all these thoughts found their expression in the fervid wish: "O that Ishmael might live before thee!" (Genesis 17:18).
Like Ishmael, they were born of Hagar, the handmaid or slave woman; like him, they were Abraham's sons only "after the flesh," and their ultimate fate is foreshadowed in the casting out of Hagar and her son.
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama "of the seed royal" (2 Kings 25:25) was among their number--all of which must have been rather gratifying to the new governor.
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 BOOK REVIEW. Daniel Quinn, Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael is the story of a man, disillusioned by the violence society inflicts upon the world and itself, who answers an ad in the paper placed by a teacher looking to instruct students on how to save the world.
Ishmael offers to teach the man how to free himself from the cultural cage that surrounds him, "for who is better qualified to teach about captivity than a gorilla".
Indeed, Ishmael is the story which theorizes how our modern mythology provides us the justification to destroy the planet as well as generating the ambivalence to the inevitable consequences that destruction holds.
www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/November95/ishmael.htm   (613 words)

  
 ishmael
Abraham brought her and her son Ishmael while she was suckling him to a place near the Kaba under a tree on the spot of ZamZam at the highest place in the mosque.
Ishmael's mother was pleased with the whole situation, as she used to love to enjoy the company of the people, so they settled there, and later on they sent for their families who came and settled with them so that some families became permanent residents there.
When he asked Ishmael's wife about him, she replied: "He has gone in search of livelihood." Then he asked her about their way of living and their condition, and she replied, "We are living in misery; we are living in hardship and destitution,' complaining to him.
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 Ishmael
Ishmael finally died at the age of 137 and joined his ancestors in death.
Ishmael's descendants were scattered across the country from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur.
She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son.
www.allaboutgod.com /truth-topics/ishmael.htm   (279 words)

  
 Ishmael (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
Son Ishmael attended the burial, along with Isaac.
Ishmael settled in the land of Paran, a region lying between Canaan and the mountains of Sinai; and "God was with him, and he became a great archer" (Gen.
In the New Testament, Isaac, as the child of promise, is contrasted with Ishmael (Gal.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/ishmael.html   (622 words)

  
 Ishmael. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Through Sara’s jealousy he and his mother were sent into the desert, where the angel of the Lord encountered them at a spring.
Ishmael married an Egyptian and fathered 12 sons and a daughter.
The spring is traditionally identified with a Meccan well near the Kaaba, which Muslims believe was built by Ishmael and Abraham.
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 Isaac & Ishmael
Ishmael's hostility and propensity to violence were rooted in the sin of his own scoffing and jealous attitude towards his brother Isaac.
Ishmael was to be strong, wild and free; and we might add, he also would be difficult, holding his brothers in contempt, despising town life, loving his freedom to the point of not being able to get along with his own kin or anyone else.
In some mysterious way, it appears that the characteristics of Ishmael, as described in Genesis 16:12, have survived to this day in the lives of those who have so closely identified with him through the life of Muhammad and his teachings in the religion of Islam.
www.inplainsite.org /html/isaac_ishmael.html   (1008 words)

  
 Ishmael Reed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael Reed may be best known as a satirical novelist, but he is also a respected poet, essayist, and editor.
Ishmael Reed was born the son of Henry Lenoir and Tiielnia Coleman, but before he was two years old, his mother remarried auto worker Bennie Reed.
Ishmael Reed is a conscious part of the Afro-American literary tradition that extends back to the first-person slave narratives, and the central purpose of his novels is to define a means of expressing the complexity of the Afro-American experience in a manner distinct from the dominant literary tradition.
lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Reed.html   (3393 words)

  
 Comparative Index to Islam : ISHMAEL
Ishmael was the first son of Abraham and his mother was Hagar, the maid servant of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Ishmael also mocked Isaac (Genesis 21:9) and in the end Hagar and Ishmael had to leave and settle in the Desert of Paran.
Ishmael) tossing in agony; She left him, for she could not endure looking at him, and found that the mountain of Safa was the nearest mountain to her on that land.
answering-islam.org.uk /Index/I/ishmael.html   (3473 words)

  
 The Ishmael Community: Meet Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Ishmael Companion -- Ishmael in the classroom
Ishmael's paradigm of history is startlingly different from the one wired into our cultural consciousness.
For Ishmael, our agricultural revolution was not a technological event but a moral one, a rebellion against an ethical structure inherent in the community of life since its foundation four billion years ago.
www.ishmael.com /Origins/Ishmael   (787 words)

  
 Ishaq or Ismail: The Muslim Dilemma
The Muslim argument that Ishmael must have been the sacrificial son because the story of the sacrifice precedes the mention of Isaac is shown to be highly vulnerable upon closer analysis.
Certainly the complete omission of Ishmael's name in the passage considerably undermines the dogmatic contemporary Muslim claim that he was the son who was commanded to be sacrificed.
Ishmael, on the other hand, as we learn from the Tourat, was the son of the bond-maid Hagar and is, consequently, nowhere in the Qur'an spoken of as a 'Gift' from God.
www.answering-islam.org /Gilchrist/Vol2/4d.html   (4102 words)

  
 Bible Study - Isaac and Ishmael
Ishmael was born from the arrangement (Genesis 16:1-4).
Ishmael, meaning God hears, was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the Egyptian maid of his wife Sarah.
Ishmael was born at Mamre, when Abraham was 86, 11 years after Abraham's arrival in what would become the land of Israel (Genesis 16:3).
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20020120.htm   (1239 words)

  
 Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael's descendants are the Arabic peoples according to both Jewish and Arab tradition.
Since Abraham's wife was concerned about the firstborn status of Ishmael, she mistreated Hagar so that she and her son would leave Abraham's house in Genesis 16:6.
The two arrive in Beersheva, and are faint with thirst when God promises that Ishmael will be made a great nation and shows them a nearby water source (Genesis 21:12-20) Ishmael had 12 sons with an Egyptian wife.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/ishmael.html   (125 words)

  
 Ishmael
After a presentation and analysis of these clues utilizing recent discoveries by Humanist scholars investigating the "pre-biblical history" of the Arabic peoples, a proposal is made as to why he was "fictiously" made the father of the Arabs.
The first clue that we have that Abraham is not in fact the father of Ishmael, is the statement that he was 86 years old when Ishmael was born (Ge 16:16).
To understand why Abraham was "fictiously" being made the father of Ishmael and the Arabs, we must identify and understand the political situation which is in existence at the time Genesis was being composed.
www.bibleorigins.net /Ishmael.html   (1862 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ishmael: Books: Daniel Quinn,Anthony Heald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael, a gorilla rescued from a traveling show who has learned to reason and communicate, uses these skills to educate himself in human history and culture.
The disappearance of Ishmael at the end of book is the only story-like element in _Ishmael_, and it is really an attempt by Quinn to set the reader free - to encourage him/her to think about civilization for himself rather than be told about it by a telepathic gorilla.
Ishmael, the gorilla, takes the narrator onto a journey of humanity while challenging the him to see humanity, and its role on this planet, in a way never before told.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553470523?v=glance   (2391 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Daniel Quinn - Ishmael at Epinions.com
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn won the award in 1991, which will not be awarded again, and was selected out of 2500 entries by a celebrity panel including famous sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury.
Among the philosophies discussed by Ishmael is the concept of the ‘takers’ and the ‘leavers’.
There is also another part that really got under my skin when Ishmael started telling what he thought ‘really happened’ in the book of Genesis.
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 Isaac or Ishmael to be Sacrificed ?
As you know, Kedar is a descendent of Ishmael {Genesis 25:13}, and Ishmael is the the base for the Family Tree of Prophet Muhammad through Kedar.
The scribes and commentators say that Ishmael is not a legitimate son of Abraham and therefore the covenant was only with Isaac.
Now I will show you in the Scripture that it was Really Ishmael who was to be sacrificed and the covenant was first done with Ishmael and Ishmael was a legitimate son of Abraham even after Abraham's death.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/4229/isaac.html   (570 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael ISHMAEL [Ishmael] [HebGod hears], in the Bible.
Ishmael married an Egyptian and fathered 12 sons and a
Ishmael is an inspiration; My dream job Toxteth-born Ishmael Majid was spotted singing in the street.
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 Ishmael's New Testament: Salvation in Moby Dick
Ishmael's going under the water and re-emerging is also "a like figure" of baptism, with the coffin his "ark." The baptism formula of Romans 6:3,4, which is often quoted during baptismal rites emphasizes that the going under the water and re-emerging typifies Christ's burial and resurrection:
Ishmael on the coffin is a kind of reconciliation between life and death, or at least an acceptance of death's reality.
Ishmael begins his story with a chapter called "Loomings." This may suggest his later description of the mat-maker at a loom in chapter 47 where the warp is necessity and the woof is free will with occasional "blows" of chance (185).
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 Amazon.co.uk: Ishmael: Books: Daniel Quinn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ishmael is the teacher seeking a student because he has a question: "With man gone, will there be hope for the gorilla?" Keep this question in mind.
As you follow Ishmael's "course" you will gain fresh insight into what he considers the fundamental question: "how did things come to be this way?" Ishmael is no pedantic scholar or medieval disputant.
Ishmael's "course" pre-requisite is "an earnest desire to save the world." No-one can question the enormity of that task, least of all Ishmael himself.
www.amazon.co.uk /Ishmael-Daniel-Quinn/dp/0613080939   (1383 words)

  
 Kooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Furat: So to answer your qurestion, Brother Balwinder, Ishmael having sexual intercourse with the Goddess is a misunderstanding on my brother Jagbir's part from A to Z. Balwinder: IMO Jagbir must clear the air on this as soon as possible (immediately).
Ishmael made it clear that he thoroughly enjoyed that tryst and, if my memory is correct, 'shri mataji' was on top.
Ishmael claims that American SYs knew he had powers before being ostracized by them, possibly because of the NA leader Manoj.
sahajacult.com /articles/kooks.htm   (3435 words)

  
 Hagar/Ishmael
The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, Abraham Bloemaert, 1638.
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, Karel Dujardin, 1662.
Hagar and Ishmael Banished by Abraham, Pieter Jozef Verhaghen, 1781.
www.textweek.com /art/hagar_Ishmael.htm   (374 words)

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