Ishmaelite

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Ishmaelite

/ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əˌlaɪt/
/ˈɪʃ.meɪˌlaɪt/

noun Ishmaelites

Any descendant of Ishmael.
broadly An outcast.
derogatory, figuratively An Arab Muslim. The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Shenute is not the oldest surviving work to allege that the Muslim “Ishmaelites” were interested in restoring the biblical Temple. That distinction belongs to the History of Sebeos, which, as we observed in chapter 2, portrays Jews as the driving force behind the Muslim conq

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@misc{ishmaelite_2026,
  title = {Ishmaelite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ishmaelite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}