This article is about early Arab conquerors of Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt. For an Ishmaelite group, see Hagrite.
Hagarenes (Ancient Greek: ἈγαρηνοίAgarenoi, Classical Syriac: ܗܓܪܝܐHagráyé or ܡܗܓܪܝܐMhaggráyé, Armenian: Հագարացի) is a term widely used by early Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Armenian sources to describe the early Arab conquerors of Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt.
The name was used in Christian literature and Byzantine chronicles for "Hanif" Arabs,[citation needed] and later for Islamic forces as a synonym of the term Saracens. The Syriac term Hagraye can be roughly translated as "the followers or descendants of Hagar",[1] while the other frequent name, Mhaggraye, is thought to have connections with the Arabic Muhajir;[2] other scholars assume that the terms may not be of Christian origin.[2] Patricia Crone and Michael Cook claim in their book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World was introduced by the Muslims themselves who described their military advance into the Levant and Jerusalem in particular as a Hijra.[3]
The name, used interchangeably with Ishmaelites, came also to mean any Muslim. An example of its current usage is Ahryani (Aхряни), a name used for Bulgarian Muslims in colloquial Bulgarian - although this term has also been explained as paralleling the spread of Balkan Islam with anti-trinitarian Arianism.[citation needed]
Hagarenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαρηνοί Agarenoi, Classical Syriac: ܗܓܪܝܐ Hagráyé or ܡܗܓܪܝܐ Mhaggráyé, Armenian: Հագարացի) is a term widely used by early Syriac...
of Hagarenes and Jews took place rather somewhere in north-west Arabia, north of Medina. After the successful conquest of the Holy Land, Hagarenes feared...
The Hagrites (also spelled Hagarite or Hagerite, and called Hagarenes, Agarenes, and sons of Agar) were associated with the Ishmaelites mentioned in the...
Ishmael is regarded as a prophet and the ancestor of the Ishmaelites (Hagarenes or Adnanites) and patriarch of Qaydār. The name "Yishma'el" existed in...
in order to identify with Abraham's "free" wife Sarah, rather than as Hagarenes, which would have highlighted their association with Abraham's "slave...
bint Zainab, grand daughter of Muhammad and a wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib Hagarenes Ishmaelites Magarites Muhajir Brotherhood among the Sahaba Sunni view...
considered themselves sedentary, but were aware of their close racial bonds. Hagarenes is a term widely used by early Syriac, Greek, and Armenian to describe...
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by a raid on the community.: 70 The perpetrator was the "emir of the Hagarenes", "Alim", probably Ali ibn-Sulayman, an Abbasid governor who raided Roman...
or Abu Yahiyya, was the leader of a sect of Afghani Alenzar (Nizariun Hagarenes) who followed an independent Ishmaili Sufi Herat tradition, introduced...
(hispanicolae). Other sources refer to them as fusci (blacks), pagani (heathen) or Hagarenes. According to Mohammad Ballan, Fraxinetum was not just a settlement, but...
thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of...
people (Greek Magaritai, Syriac Mahgre or Mahgraye) call their conquerors "Hagarenes" rather than Muslims. Instead of being inspired to conquest by a new prophet...
Genesios and other chroniclers further state that Thomas won the support of "Hagarenes, Indians (Zutt), Egyptians, Assyrians, Medians, Abasgians, Zichs, Iberians...
and great trophies, and expanded the Roman boundaries and sacked many Hagarene cities." Chronicle of Theophanes Continuatus, Reign of Romanos Lekapenos...
Theban lady attempted to seduce him. He also records how a group of "Hagarenes" (Muslims) harassed the saint, who was rescued from his predicament by...
brother-in-law in Kastoria (1696) New Martyr George of Kastoria, martyred by the Hagarenes in the Acarnania region. New Hieromartyr Vasilios Kalapaliki, priest of...
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