12 Facts About Islamic flags

An Islamic flag is a flag either representing an Islamic Caliphate or 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.

Early Islamic flags greatly simplified its design by using plain color, due to the Islamic prescriptions on aniconism.

Crescent appears in Islamic flags attributed to Tunis from as early as the 14th century Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms, long before Tunis fell under Ottoman rule in 1574.

The Spanish Navy Museum in Madrid shows two Ottoman naval Islamic flags dated 1613; both are swallow-tailed, one green with a white crescent near the hoist, the other white with two red stripes near the edges of the flag and a red crescent near the hoist.

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War Islamic flags came into use by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, gradually replacing their traditional tugh or horse-tail standards.

Two Zulfiqar Islamic flags are depicted in a plate dedicated to Turkish Islamic flags in vol.

The Islamic flags were specifically colour coded to direct soldiers of the three main divisions of the Mahdist army – the Black, Green and Red Banners.

The star-and-crescent in these Islamic flags was not originally intended as religious symbolism, but an association of the symbol with Islam seems to have developed beginning in the 1950s or 1960s.

Flag of Yemen, in spite of the constitutional definition of Yemen as an Islamic flags state implementing the sharia, does not include religious symbolism.

In Shia Muslim traditions, Islamic flags are a significant part of the rituals for the Mourning of Muharram.

All Islamic flags have guardians and they are passed down through generations.