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Don't Muslims believe they are worshiping the God of Abraham?

No. The bible says Ishmael went east and was the progenitor of the Arab people. However, this was more than 2500 years before the birth of Mohammed and the founding of Islam. In the Christian Old Testament, of course a mirror of the Hebrew scriptures, when God's name is used it is written LORD in all capital letters. The Hebrew writers thought the name of God was so holy they would not write the vowels in it so we're not sure exactly what it is, but it's believed to be either Jahveh (Yahweh) or Jehovah.

There is no indication to my knowledge the Arab people ever worshipped Jehovah. Jehovah said he is God and there are no others. Mohammed was born into a society that worshipped several hundred gods. There were stones that represented each of these gods. Mohammed picked out the stone of one of these many gods, the moon god, and declared him to be the god of his religion Islam, thus the crescent moon as the symbol of Islam.

Muslims do believe that they follow the God of Abraham and Moses, but they do not. The God of the bible would never be pimping out 72 virgins for every man. The God of the bible would not be teaching men to kill the kafirs, or unbelievers. The God of the bible has the 10 commandments to tell us what sin really is. Mohammed made up his own rules about sin. The God of the bible wanted men to have the opportunity to have immortal life. The Quran teaches that Jesus will come again, then follow Mohammed, then live for 40 years and then die. But Jesus has conquered death, and he will not have to die. In no way is the God of the bible the same as allah in the Quran.