So, I remember reading once that in Islam it’s Ishmael that almost gets sacrificed by Abraham… not Isaac. Today, I asked my students where their names came from (I was specifically interested in knowing about one of my students named Hajar… since her name sounds a lot like Hagar). It turns out that Hajar’s name is the Arabic form of Hagar, who was Abraham’s wife in the Quran. She got into an argument with a girl named Sara in our class, because in the Quran Sara was the servant, not the other way around and Sara did not like being referred to as a servant, especially since there is quite a bit of discrimination here based on social class. ( I guess that wasn’t a good question to ask with both of them there, but I did find that information quite interesting.)
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