 [ ... ] a late Islamic fabrication because of the confusion in Islamic times which made it such a capacious term as to include the inhabitants of the south as well as the north of the Arabian Peninsula . But shorn of this extravagance , the concept is much more modest in its denotation , and in the sober sources it applies only to certain groups among the Arabs of pre @-@ Islamic times . Some important statements to this effect were made by Muhammed when he identified some Arabs as Ishmaelites and others as not . 
 [ ... ] a late Islamic fabrication because of the confusion in Islamic times which made it such a capacious term as to include the inhabitants of the south as well as the north of the Arabian Peninsula . But shorn of this extravagance , the concept <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>much more modest in its denotation , and in the sober sources it <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>applies</mark></a> only to certain groups among the Arabs of pre @-@ Islamic times . Some important statements to this effect <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> made by Muhammed when he identified some Arabs as Ishmaelites and others as not . 
[ ... ] a late Islamic fabrication bc of da confusion in Islamic times which made it such a capacious term as to include the inhabitants of tdasouth as well as thdaorth of thedaabian Peninsula . But shorn of this extravagance , the concept much more modest in its denotation , and in the daer sources it apply only to certain groups among the Arabs of pre @-@ Islamic times . Some important statements to this effect was made by Muhammed when he identified some Arabs as Ishmaelites and others as not .