Hagarenes
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The name was used in Christian literature and Byzantine chronicles for "Hanif" Arabs,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and later for Islamic forces as a synonym of the term Saracens. The Syriac term Script error: No such module "lang". can be roughly translated as "the followers or descendants of Hagar",[1] while the other frequent name, Script error: No such module "lang"., is thought to have connections with the Arabic Script error: No such module "lang".;[2] other scholars assume that the terms may not be of Christian origin.[2] Patricia Crone and Michael Cook claim in their book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World was introduced by the Muslims themselves who described their military advance into the Levant and Jerusalem in particular as a Hijra.[3]
The name, used interchangeably with Ishmaelites, came also to mean any Muslim. An example of its current usage is Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".), a name used for Bulgarian Muslims in colloquial Bulgarian - although this term has also been explained as paralleling the spread of Balkan Islam with anti-trinitarian Arianism.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- Jewish Encyclopedia: Hagarenes, Hagarites