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Flag map of the Arab World. Flags of Arab countries, territories, and organisations usually include the color green, which is a symbol of Islam as well as an emblem of purity, fertility and peace. Common colors in Arab flags are Pan-Arab colors (red, black, white and green); common symbols include stars, crescents and the Shahada.
Islamic State of Iraq/Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: 2006–present On the top of the flag and the circle Kuwait: 1940-1961 On the fly and the centre Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen: 1918–27 Emirate of Nejd and Hasa: 1902–21 Sultanate of Nejd: 1921–26 Saudi Arabia: 1932–present [1] Saudi Arabia (royal standard) 1932–present [1 ...
The Royal Standard consists of a green flag, with an Arabic inscription and a sword featured in white, and with the national emblem embroidered in gold in the lower right canton of the year 1973. The script on the flag is written in the Thuluth script. It is the shahada or Islamic declaration of faith:
The Arab Liberation Flag borrowed the pan-Arab colors from the 1916 flag of the Arab Revolt.While the colors of black, white, red, and green on the original Arab revolt flag symbolized historical Arab dynasties, namely the Abbasids, Umayyads, Hashemites, and Islam (or possibly the Fatimids), respectively, the Arab Liberation Flag colors also had different meanings.
An Islamic flag is the flag either 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.
Pan-Arab colors, used individually in the past, were first combined in 1916 in the flag of the Arab Revolt or Flag of Hejaz. [11] Many current flags are based on Arab Revolt colors, such as the flags of Jordan , Kuwait , Palestine , the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic , and the United Arab Emirates .
Map of the Arab world The flag of the Arab Revolt was originally used against the Ottoman Turks, and remains a prominent symbol of Pan-Arabism. The design and colours are the basis of many modern Arab states' flags. The Arab Liberation Flag was created by the Free Officers movement that led the 1952 Egyptian revolution.
Flag Date Use Description 1973–present Royal Flag of the King of Saudi Arabia. (Ratio: 2:3) A green field with the Shahada or Muslim creed written in the Thuluth script in white above a horizontal sword, having its tip pointed to the left with the golden royal emblem on the fly side.