The Angel of God had told his mother, Hagar, ‘Call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man; and every man’s hand shall be against him.’[42] Wildness, violence, lack of self-control and unbridled passion were the fundamental critiques that the Christian world had made of the Sons of Ishmael from the earliest days.
