Islamic flags

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by rob raeside
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• International flags for Islam
• Evolution of Islamic flags
  • The Flag of Quraish
  • The Flag of Constantinople (Istanbul)
  • The Flags of the Islamic Era
• Crescent and star
  • Origin of the Crescent and Star: the attack by Philip on Constantinople?
  • Origin of the Crescent and Star: a conjunction seen by Mohammed?
  • Origin of the Crescent and Star: a Babylonian symbol?
  • The Astronomical Impossibility
  • Terminology for different orientations of crescents
  • Legends arising from geographic crescents
  • The Crescent and Star used by King Richard I
  • A decorative design
• Nation of Islam

• Organization of Islamic conference
• Flag of the Islamic Khilafah
• Sufism (Indian Sufic Brotherhood)
• Hizb ut-Tahrir (worldwide Islamic party)
• Muslim flags in Kolkata

International flags for Islam

Unless one takes a plain green banner (similar to Libya's) as a broad representation of Islam (said to have been borne by the Prophet Muhammad PBUH), there is not an Islamic flag.
The best representative body here would be the Organisation of the Isl