Shihab kuran biography of abraham

For centuries, the received wisdom filtered down to us through the existing books of the Old Testament is that God promised that Abraham (peace be upon him) would be the father of a great nation and that nation would be generated through his son, Isaac (peace be upon him).

His ‘other son,’ Ishmael (peace be upon him), is dismissed as of no importance.

Or is he of no importance?

This, in fact, isn’t quite what the Bible tells us.

Abraham (peace be upon him) had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac, also known as Israel.

There is, without doubt, in the existing version of the Bible, an undisguised bias in favor of the Israelite branch of the family and there are clear attempts to confuse the issue and to belittle the Ishmaelite branch.

This is unquestionably because the ones writing the versions of the Old Testament we have today were of the Israelites.

Isn’t it the case that history is often written down by the victors?

Throughout history, as the Israelites bec