Original sentence: A line in the Book of Jubilees (20:13) also mentions the tradition that the descendants of Ishmael became the Arabs.All this has led to a commonplace view that modern Semitic-speaking Arabs are descended from Abraham via Ishmael, in addition to various other tribes who intermixed with the Ishmaelites, such as Joktan, etc.Some Arab historians have traced the true Arabs to Qahtan and the Arabicised Arabs to Adnan, said to be an ancestor of Muhammed, and have further equated Ishmael with A'raq Al-Thara said to be ancestor of Adnan.Some Biblical scholars also believe that the area outlined in Genesis as the final destination of Ishmael and his descendants ("from Havilah to Assyria") refers to the Arabian peninsula.The 1st century Jewish historian Josephus described the descendants of Abraham's son by Hagar, Ishmael (i
Edited sentence: A line in the Book of Jubilees (20:13) mentions that the descendants of Ishmael became the "Arabians" (Hebrew `arvim) - a term referring to the mixed tribes of the Syrian Desert later known as the Nabteans.Classical Arab historians traced the true Arabs (i.He also calls Ishmael the "founder" (κτίστης) of the "Arabians".However both Judaeo-Christian and Islamic tradition speak of earlier inhabitants of Arabia and the Nabateans are not the ancestors of the modern Arabs having assimilated into the Syriac, Jewish and Greek Middle Eastern communities of Late Antiquity.The 1st century Jewish historian Josephus similarly described the descendants of Ishmael (i.This has led to a commonplace view that modern Arabs are descended from Abraham via Ishmael.the original Arabs from Yemen) to Qahtan and the Arabicised Arabs (people from the region of Mecca who assimilated into the Arabs) to Adnan, said to be an ancestor of Muhammed, and have further equated Ishmael with A'raq Al-Thara said to be ancestor of Adnan