...always has been: an oriental religion, having its home in the East. And Ishmael remains Ishmael — "a wild man; his hand . . . against every man, and every man's hand against him" — populous and at home with his own kind. 1 . Evan Thomas, "Cracking the Terror Code,"...

...fountain of water, who told her to return to her mistress, saying the son she was about to bear would be a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, and that he would be the fattier of a great multitude. Hagar returned, after calling the...

...witness!' I let him keep the last word, and he went away chuckling. At home I looked up Ishmael: 'He will be a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him.' But the name means 'he whom God heareth,' and I was pleased. 'The Lord is loving unto...