Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

A Flemish Baroque painting reanimates Genesis 16–21 and helps us reflect on trust, covenant and the consequences of human ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

Traditionally, Israel considered Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be the three patriarchs ... Abram did so, and Ishmael was born ...

but the son is often identified as Ishmael (Isma’il). The event is celebrated during Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice. The story of Abraham and Isaac, then, is a pivot point—a reflection of ...

Hagar and Abraham had a son called Ishmael. This was not what God had promised and later Sarah and Abraham had their own son called Isaac. Abraham now had two sons, one with his wife Sarah and one ...

We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received ...