Peter Webb (2016).
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- 2026-06-09-note-02 — Whether pre-Islamic Arabs thought they descended from Ishmael — Webb’s reading that the central-Arabian sources are silent, only a small Levantine cluster (Safaitic onomastics + Sozomen + Josephus) attests the claim, and the pan-Arabian Ishmaelite genealogy is a first-two-Islamic-centuries Fertile-Crescent construction (2026-06-09)
- 2026-06-10-note-02 — Synthesis of Webb (silence of pre-Islamic central Arabia on Ishmael; small Levantine cluster as the only attestation) + Fisher (Pauline-Christian construction of the Arab–Ishmaelite equation through Origen, Eusebius, Sozomen) + Shuaib/Ephʾal (the ancient biblical “Ishmaelite” ethnonym for a south-Palestine / N. Arabian tribal confederation, attested down to the mid-tenth century BCE then falling silent for ~1000 years) — four distinct historical formations (2026-06-10)