Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a son of Abraham but not the child of Sarah — Islam is connected to Abrahamic ...

Prophet Ishmael was a half-brother of Prophet Isaac, long separated from him, but always related, as can be seen from the Qur’an: “Say: we believe in God and in what has been revealed to us ...

The Torah focuses on Isaac’s life more than Ishmael’s so it is not unexpected that Genesis 22 is all about Abraham and Isaac. The Qur’an hints at a solution to the question of the son’s name.

Parallel to the story of Abraham being asked by God to sacrifice Isaac, the Torah tells of God testing Abraham by commanding him to send Ishmael into the desert.

Hebron means “friendship” or “unity.” How ironic. Since the day that Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham, after a lifetime of enmity and estrangement from each other, Hebron’s unity has been elusive.

All four of them were descendants of Prophet Abraham and his two sons, Prophets Ishmael and Isaac. Prophet Abraham also received from Allah a smaller written revelation called Suhuf Ibrahim by the ...

Thus, because Prophet Abraham shared equally four trials with the Sarah/Isaac lineage, and four with the Hajar/Ishmael lineage [two and 1/2 trials with Hajar, one and 1/2 with Ishmael], God’s ...

Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on the how by having a boy (Ishmael) through Sarah’s Egyptian slave, Hagar.