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هَاجَر
Hājar
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Egyptian princess, being the handmaiden of Sarai/Sarah Ibrahim (Abraham) and mother of Ismail (Ishmael).
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Ibrahim (Abraham)
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Ismail
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Hājar (Arabic: هَاجَر), known as Hagar in the Hebrew Bible, was the wife[1] of the patriarch and Islamic prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Ismā'īl (Ishmael). She is a revered woman in the Islamic faith. According to Muslim belief, she was the daughter of the king of Egypt who gifted her to Ibrahim's wife Sarah.[2]: 90–98 Although not mentioned by name in the Qur'an, she is referenced and alluded to via the story of her husband. She eventually settled in the Desert of Paran, seen as the Hejaz in the Islamic view, with her son Ishmael. Hajar is honoured as an especially important matriarch of monotheism, as Ishmael was the ancestor of Muhammad.[2]: 109 ...
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Hājar (Arabic: هَاجَر), known as Hagarin the Hebrew Bible, was the wife of the patriarch and Islamic prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Ismā'īl...
ancestor. Hagar is alluded to, although not named, in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife. According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian...
patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, through his wife Sara's handmaiden Hagar (Genesis 16:3). According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of...
Muhammad's leadership.: 42 Ismail and Hagar being taken to Mecca by Abraham inIslamic texts is an important part in the story of Ishmael, as it brings the...
was actually Hagar), and by her had at least six more children. In the biblical narrative, Sarah is the wife of Abraham. In two places in the narrative...
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Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World is a 1977 book about the early history of Islam by the historians Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. Drawing on...
detailed inIslamic text, such as the arguments between Abraham and the evil king, Nimrod, the near-sacrifice of his son, and the story of Hagar and Ishmael...
mountains. InIslamic tradition, the civilization of Mecca started after Ibrāhīm (Abraham) left his son Ismāʿīl (Ishmael) and wife Hājar (Hagar) in the valley...
Origins of Islam (2010) pp. 68 ff.; cf. also Hans Jansen: Mohammed (2005/7) pp. 311-317 (German edition 2008) Patricia Crone / Michael Cook: Hagarism (1977)...
returned to the valley of Mecca several years after leaving his wife Hajar (Hagar) and Ismail there upon Allah's command. Circling the Kaaba seven times counterclockwise...
Trade. Three decades after Hagarism, Fred Donner called Crone's work a "milestone" in the field of Orientalist study of Islam. Though she began as a scholar...
Hagar. According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, Ishmael had one daughter and twelve sons, the "twelve princes" mentioned in Genesis 17:20. In Islamic...
Although Islam honors numerous women, including Hawwa, Hagar, Sarah, Asiya, Khadijah, Fatimah, Ayesha, Hafsa many commentators followed this verse in the absolute...
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the...
calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355...
mother Hajar (Hagar) in the desert. It is stated to have dried up during the settlement of the Jurhum in the area and to have been rediscovered in the 6th century...
in the First Centuries of Islam (1986) Patricia Crone / Michael Cook: Hagarism (1977) pp. 22-24; Patricia Crone: Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987);...
Christian origin. Patricia Crone and Michael Cook claim in their book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World was introduced by the Muslims themselves who...
young Muslim woman in America, and the power of faith." Sons of Hagar is another hip hop group that seeks to positively portray Islamin their lyrics and...
Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Isaac first appears in the Book of Genesis, later adopted...
commemorate Hagar's search for help and the resulting revelation of the well of Zamzam. In addition to the Islamic tradition that Hagar and Ishmael settled in Bakkah...
early Islamic history than the later Islamic sources do. The date of composition of some of the early non-Islamic sources is controversial. Hagarism has...
of people named or referred to in both the Bible and the Quran. Sarah, Hagar, Zipporah, Elizabeth, Raphael, Cain and Abel, Korah, Joseph's brothers,...
David. InIslamic tradition, it has often been equated with an area of the Hejaz. The Wilderness or Desert of Paran is said to be the place where Hagar was...
widely accepted by Muslim scholars in pre-modern times. Most modern Muslims, both scholars and laypersons, believe that Islam no longer permits concubinage...
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