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  2. Symbols of Islam - Wikipedia

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    The crescent is usually associated with Islam and regarded as its symbol. The crescent and star had been used in the coinage of the Sassanid Persian Empire. The Umayyad Caliphate, after the Rashidun Caliphate's conquest of the region, continue to use similar coins with some modification but leaving the star and crescent intact.

  3. Moon sighting in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Moon sighting (Arabic: رؤية الهلال) refers to the act of observing a new crescent moon and is one of the ways to determine the beginning of a lunar month in religion. [ 1 ] [ better source needed ] On the Islamic calendar , a month begins with the sighting of the new crescent Moon.

  4. List of Arab flags - Wikipedia

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    A green field with the golden five-pointed star and the golden horizontal crescent moon, the closed side is down, in the center in between two red horizontal bands on the top and the bottom edges of the flag. 1915 to present Flag of Morocco: A red field with the Seal of Solomon is the green pentagram, a five-pointed linear star, in the center.

  5. Muslims spot Ramadan crescent moon in Saudi Arabia, meaning ...

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    Officials saw the crescent moon Sunday night in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims.

  6. Crescent and star (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    The conjoined representation of a crescent and a star is used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire, and in contemporary times, as a national symbol by some countries, and by some Muslims as a symbol of Islam, [1] while other Muslims reject it as an Islamic symbol. [2]

  7. Ramadan (month) - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.

  8. Crescent - Wikipedia

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    A crescent shape (/ ˈ k r ɛ s ən t /, UK also / ˈ k r ɛ z ən t /) [1] is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.

  9. Islamic flag - Wikipedia

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    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.