or Hagarites, the descendants of Ishmael the son of Hagar. They were also called Ishmaelites; but these appellations have in later times been lost in the general one of Saracens, or Arabians. They dwelt, according to Pliny, in Arabia Felix; Strabo places them in Arabia Deserta; while other writers have assigned them to Arabia Petraea. (Comp. Psalm lxxxiii.; 1 Chron. v.10.) See ARABIA, vol. iii., p. 361.