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The Black Banner or Black Standard (Arabic: الراية السوداء, romanized: ar-rāyat as-sawdāʾ), also known as the Banner of the eagle (Arabic: راية العقاب, romanized: rāyat al-ʿuqāb) or simply as The banner (Arabic: الراية, romanized: ar-rāyah) is one of the flags flown by the Islamic prophet Muhammad according to Muslim tradition.
An Islamic flag is the flag representing an Islamic caliphate, religious order, state, civil society, military force or other entity associated with Islam. Islamic flags have a distinct history due to the Islamic prescription on aniconism , making particular colours, inscriptions or symbols such as crescent-and-star popular choices.
'great flag') is the alleged original standard of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is kept along with other relics of Muhammad , in the treasury of the Topkapı Palace , in Istanbul . According to legend, the flag was used in the first Muslim wars; then passed into the hands of the Umayyads and Abbasids ; and finally, with Selim I 's conquest ...
The alleged seal of Prophet Muhammad, muqwaki (circular) design The Seal of Muhammad (Turkish: Muhammed'in mührü, Arabic: ختم الرسول, romanized: KḪatm ar-Rasūl) [a] is one of the alleged relics of Muhammad kept in the Topkapı Palace by the Ottoman Sultans as part of the Sacred Relics collection.
The crescent and star in the flag of the Kingdom of Libya (1951) was explicitly given an Islamic interpretation by associating it with "the story of Hijra (migration) of our Prophet Mohammed" [19] By the 1950s, this symbolism was embraced by movements of Arab nationalism such as the proposed Arab Islamic Republic (1974). [20]
A mancus gold dinar of king Offa of Mercia, copied from the dinars of the Abbasid Caliphate (774); it includes the Arabic text "Muhammad is the Messenger of God". The Qibla of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah in the Mosque of Ibn Tulun , Cairo showing the Shia shahada that ends with the phrase "'Aliyyan Waliyyullah" ("Ali is the ...
The most common visual representation of the Muhammad in Islamic art, especially in Arabic-speaking areas, is by a calligraphic representation of his name, a sort of monogram in roughly circular form, often given a decorated frame. Such inscriptions are normally in Arabic, and may rearrange or repeat forms, or add a blessing or honorific, or ...
Centre of the flag Afghanistan: 2002–04 at top of emblem Idrisid Emirate of Asir: 1906–34 Centre of the flag Bangladesh Islami Front: 1990–present Bangsamoro Republik/Moro National Liberation Front: 2013–present in star and crescent Hamas –present Centre of the flag Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd: 1926–32