Islam, like Chiristianity and Judaism, traces its ancestry to the patriarch, Abraham.
Isma'il was said to be the son of Abraham and an Egyptian slave, Hagar.
When Abraham's wife, Sarah, also bored him a son (Isaac), Abraham took Isma'il and Hagar to the desert valley of Mecca in Arabia to spare them Sarah's jealousy.
The sacred book of Islam, the Holy Qur'an, received as a series of revelations to Muhammad, relates that Abraham and Ishamael together built the holiest sanctuary in Islam, the Ka'bah.
It was thought to be the site of Adam's original place of worship
According to Islamic tradition, the region sank into historical oblivion as it turned away from Abraham's monotheism. For many centuries, the events of the rest of the world passed it by, aside from contact through trading caravans. Then in to a poor clan of the most powerful of the trives in the area was born a child named Muhammad (the praised one)
His father died before he was
born, and after the death of his......
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