Definition of "Ishmaelite" (derogatory, figurative) An Arab Muslim . quotations examples
Quotations 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 conquest of Jerusalem . This mid -seventh -century chronicle asserts that these Jews “decided to rebuild the Temple of Solomon . . But the Ishmaelites being envious of them , expelled them from that place and called the same house of prayer their own .”
2023 January 10, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 4, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, page 70