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

Traditionally, Israel considered Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be the three patriarchs ... Abram did so, and Ishmael was born of their union. The patriarch also denied his wife twice, claiming ...

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 ...

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 ...

The issues of anthropomorphism (tashbih) in Islam are over the very few anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Qur’an, or the more frequent aḥadith al-ṣifat – traditions that depict God and His ...