Islam repositions Ishmael, Abraham’s rejected son, as his favored heir

Evidence

Ishmael, far from being the rejected illegitimate son portrayed in Genesis, is, for the Koran, the first and favored son of Abraham, and the Ka’ba is the oldest and most holy shrine to the One God, predating Solomon’s temple at Jerusalem. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 228

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supplies the medieval root-source for the competitive Abrahamic genealogy claims mapped in the vault — Islam is not merely derivative but claims primacy/favor over the biblical line.
• SEED: Family-succession framing (which son is the true heir) is a durable template across Islam-West disputes; the Ka’ba-predates-Temple claim is the same chronopolitical move Anidjar tracks.