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The Black Banner or Black Standard (Arabic: الراية السوداء, romanized: ar-rāyat as-sawdāʾ, also known as راية العقاب (rāyat al-ʿuqāb, "banner of the eagle" or simply as الراية , ar-rāyah, "the banner") is one of the flags flown by the Islamic prophet Muhammad according to Muslim tradition.
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. Since the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, flags with certain colours were associated
'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 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]
Muhammad had a seal made of silver, with the words Muḥammad rasūl Allāh or "Muhammad the Apostle of God." The three words, on three lines, were on the ring, and Muhammad ordered that no duplicate was to be made. After his death, the ring came down to Uthman, who accidentally dropped the ring into the well of Aris. The well was so deep the ...
The hadith of black flags or black banners are a body of purported eschatological hadith (traditions attributed to Muhammad) that describe an army emerging from Khorasan or "the east" bearing black flags, typically preceding the appearance of the Mahdi. Both Western scholarship and Muslim hadith scholars consider the traditions to be spurious. [1]
Flag of Iran; the center emblem is a stylized form of the Arabic word Allah and its five parts represent the Five Pillars of Islam; the red and green bands bear the ...
The Hawk of Quraish (Arabic: صقرُ قُريْشٍ, romanized: ṣāqr Quraysh) is a symbol which is found on a number of emblems, coats of arms and flags of several states of the Arab world. The traditions and recorded history about the Quraysh and Prophet Muhammad claim a falcon had been used as clan