Ishmaelites

Noun

Ishmaelite (plural Ishmaelites)

1. Any descendant of Ishmael.
2. (broadly) An outcast.
3. (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...2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 4, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 70