ISHMAEL, or, in Hebrew, Yishmaʿeʾl; eldest son of Abraham. Ishmael's mother was Hagar, an Egyptian slave girl whom Sarah gave to Abraham because of her own infertility; in accordance with Mesopotamian law, the offspring of such a...

[1] Son of Abraham and Hagar. [2] Rabbinic sage of ca. 100...

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Ishmael (Hebrew: יִשְׁמָעֵאל, Standard Yišmaʿel Tiberian Yišmāʿêl; Arabic: إسماعيل, Ismā'īl) is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Quran whom Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers regard as the Abraham's eldest son, born by his...

FOLLOW-UP The Voice catches up with memoir author Ishmael Beah at Columbia Ishmael Beah's publisher wouldn't allow the Voice to interview him, so the Voice sought out the author himself last week at a public appearance in Manhattan. Beah, the elusive...

"Call me Ishmael" Startled, I looked up to see an odd elderly man standing behind me. "What?" I stammered as he hoisted his bulk onto the bench where I was sitting. "Ishmael," he repeated. "It's my name, and I don't...

Long Way Home-author Ishmael Beah, the child soldier-turned-memoirist from Sierra Leone whose credibility was challenged over the weekend by an Australian newspaper, has issued a statement defending his book and denying accusations that he misrepresented the time he spent in the Sierra Leone army. ...

Reporters at The Australian are trying to turn up the heat on Ishmael Beah, the former child soldier from Sierra Leone whose memoirs, A Long Way Gone, they have been questioning in print since last month. Over the weekend, the paper published a story describing...

Discusses Mother Culture in the novel "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.