(July 12, 2024 at 10:46 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Abraham and Ishmael were both fictions concocted during the First Diaspora by priests in Babylon. There's no archeological evidence for extensive early monotheism in the Arabian peninsula, with the first real influences arriving via Jewish communities followed later by Christians. Poltyhesists outnumbered either prior to Islam.
This seems most likely to me, too.