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Abraham one of gods messangers had two wives Hager and Sarah. Ismael was Hager's son and Isaac was Sarah's son. each son would be the father of a nation. The Israelites descended from Isaac and the Ishmaelites from Ishmael.And as said that Arab where identified as Ishmaelities.

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There is no evidence that the Arabs thought of themselves as descended from Ishmael before Muhammad intoroduced Islam, an Abrahamic religion with strong parallels to Judaism and Christianity. Because the Old Testament states that Ishmael was the ancestor of the Arab people, most religious Arabs accept that they were descended from Ismael and that the Jews were descended from Isaac.

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