Crossword clues for ishmael
ishmael
- Literary narrator
- Abraham's eldest
- 'Moby-Dick' narrator
- Starbuck's mate
- Starbuck's colleague
- Queequeg's shipmate
- Narrator who gets saved by the Rachel at the end of his story
- Narrator rescued by the Rachel at the novel's end
- Narrator in 'Moby-Dick'
- Narrator aboard the Pequod
- Moby Dick narrator
- Merchant mariner of fiction
- Melville narrator
- "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee" writer
- Shipmate of Starbuck
- Pequod hand
- (Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac
- Considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes
- A person who is rejected (from society or home)
- Lone survivor of the Pequod
- Third word of "Moby-Dick"
- Pequod crewman
- "Moby Dick" narrator
- Narrator of Moby-Dick
- Lone Pequod survivor
- "Call Me ___"
- Queequeg crewmate
- Memorable 1851 novel line
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, biblical son of Abraham and Hagar, from Hebrew Yishma'el, literally "God hears," from yishma, imperf. of shama "he heard." The Arabs claim descent from him. Figurative sense of "an outcast," "whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him" is from Gen. xvi:12.
Wikipedia
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It examines the mythological thinking at the heart of modern civilization, its effect on ethics, and how this relates to sustainability and societal collapse on the global scale. The novel uses a style of Socratic dialogue to deconstruct the notion that humans are the pinnacle of biological evolution. It posits that anthropocentrism and several other widely accepted modern ideas are actually cultural myths and that global civilization is enacting these myths with catastrophic consequences. The novel was awarded the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991, a year before its formal publication.
Ishmael ultimately comprises a loose trilogy, including a 1996 spiritual sequel, The Story of B, and a 1997 " sidequel," My Ishmael. Quinn also details how he arrived at the ideas behind Ishmael in his autobiography, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest. Yet another related follow-up book to Ishmael is Quinn's 1999 short treatise, Beyond Civilization.
Ishmael ( ISO 259-3, Yišmaˁel; Ismaēl; ; ) is a figure in the Tanakh and the Qur'an and was Abraham's first son according to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Ishmael was born to Abraham's and Sarah's handmaiden Hagar . According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137 .
The Book of Genesis and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael to be the ancestor of the Ishmaelites and patriarch of Qaydār. According to Muslim tradition, Ishmael the Patriarch and his mother Hagar are said to be buried next to the Kaaba in Mecca.
Ishmael is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). Ishmael, the only surviving crewmember of the Pequod, is the narrator of the book. As a character he is a few years younger than as a narrator. His importance relies on his role as narrator; as a character, he is only a minor participant in the action. The Biblical name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts.
Because he was the first person narrator, much early criticism of Moby-Dick either confused Ishmael with the author himself or overlooked him. From the mid-twentieth century onward, critics distinguished Ishmael from Melville, establishing the character's mystic and speculative consciousness as a central force in contrast to Captain Ahab's monomaniacal force of will.
By contrast with his namesake Ishmael from Genesis, who is banished into the desert, Ishmael is wandering upon the sea. Each Ishmael, however, experiences a miraculous rescue; in the Bible from thirst, here from drowning.
In the Book of Mormon, Ishmael ( or ) is the righteous friend of the prophet Lehi in Jerusalem. When Lehi takes his family into the wilderness, Lehi brings Ishmael and his family too. The daughters of Ishmael marry the sons of Lehi, but the sons of Ishmael join Laman and Lemuel in their rebellion against Nephi. Ishmael dies in the wilderness, and is buried at Nahom. (See Archaeology and the Book of Mormon) After their arrival in the Americas, the children of Ishmael side with the Lamanites, except for those daughters who married Sam, Nephi, and Zoram.
A second Ishmael is the grandfather of Amulek.
Ishmael is the first child of Abraham in Abrahamic religions.
Ishmael may also refer to:
Rev Ian Smale (born 1950) better known by the stage name Ishmael is a gospel beat, Christian punk and children's music musician and evangelist from the United Kingdom. He has had an international ministry since playing in the acoustic duo Ishmael and Andy with Andy Piercy starting in 1970. His innovative musical styles and enthusiasm for his faith have influenced many people of all ages to become Christians or to have a deeper experience in their Christianity such as being filled with the Holy Spirit or being healed.
Ishmael is a novel by Barbara Hambly, set in the Star Trek fictional universe.
Usage examples of "ishmael".
Ishmael reminded Marcus that he had made his first million aurei of gold in transporting sand from Egypt to Roman arenas.
Stemple noticed with a stab of his old uneasiness that Ishmael was able to distinguish finer details in the dim gray light of the rainy morning far sooner than any of the Bolts or their men.
The hermit of Engaddi --he whom Popes and Councils have regarded as a prophet--hath read in the stars that thy marriage shall reconcile me with a powerful enemy, and that thy husband shall be Christian, leaving thus the fairest ground to hope that the conversion of the Soldan, and the bringing in of the sons of Ishmael to the pale of the church, will be the consequence of thy wedding with Saladin.
Ishmael handed the man a coin, and disappeared into the gaslit gloom of the corridor.
Jukes, Nams, Kallikaks, Zeros, Dacks, Ishmaels, Sixties, Hickories, Hill Folk, Piney Folk, and the rest, with which the readers of the literature of restrictive eugenics are familiar.
Feeling audacious, Ishmael withdrew the purloined logbooks and held them out.
This turn, this particular connection of Islam with Abraham, made it possible for him, by means of an adaptation of the biblical legends concerning Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael, to include in his religion a set of religious customs of the Meccans, especially the hajj.
City of Peace can never die because when that gentle King of Salem reigned on that mountain so long ago, long before Abraham came to seek him out and receive his blessing and father the sons called Ishmael and Isaac in this land, long before then Melchizedek had already dreamed his gentle dream, my dream, and in so doing given it life forever, without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life.
They address the Moors with a villainous, cringing look which makes the sons of Ishmael savage, for they know it is only feigned.
As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael, Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and Captain Pope.
Herbie Miller and the Rodent would still be looking for jobs, and the Dutchman, Ali ben Ishak, Major Theodore Dobbins, Ishmael Bledsoe, and Luthor Christian would all still be hunting for spouses.
They read in companionable silence, Ishmael picking his way cautiously through the overwritten fastnesses of pulp journalism and town politics and wondering why the humorous account of two Irishmen caught roasting a Chinese in the boiler of his own laundry should shock him so.
Among the moderns, Ishmael Abulfeda marks it at Cadiz, Alfonso at Toledo, Pigafetta and Herrera the same, Copernicus sets it at Fruemburg, Reinhold at Monte Reale or Koenigsberg, Longomontanus at Copenhagen, Lansbergis at Goes, Riccioli at Bologna, and the atlases of lansonius and Bleau at Monte Pico.
They waited like ghosts in the rock out croppings outside the circle of light where Ishmael told his tales.
Her eyes went to Ishmael, standing silently in the shadows beside the chimney breast.