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In Unicode: ( U+262A ☪ STAR AND CRESCENT ) Allah. Means "God" in Arabic and used by Muslims worldwide irrespective of the language spoken. The word written in Islamic calligraphy is widely used as a symbol of Islam in the Muslim world. In Unicode: ( U+FDF2 ﷲ ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM ) Shahadah.
The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [ 3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.
True Black Moon ⯞ U+2BDE: The lunar apogee calculated from its current position (disregarding solar perturbation), as opposed to its mean position. [34] symbols related to Lilith: White Moon, or Selena ⯝ U+2BDD: Russian astrologer Pavel Globa invented this to serve as the symbolic opposite of the Black Moon in the 1980s. [34] True White ...
Sealing depicting the Neo Sumerian King, Ibbi-Sin seated with a star or Dingir and crescent adjacent to him Depiction of the emblems of Ishtar (Venus), Sin (Moon), and Shamash (Sun) on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II (12th century BC) Venus, Sun and Moon on the Stele of Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BC) found at Harran (Şanlıurfa Museum) [10]
Flag of Algeria. Two vertical bands of green and white and the red crescent moon encircling the red five-pointed star in the center within the dividing line. 2002 to present. Flag of Bahrain. A red field with the white serrated band with five points on the hoist-side. 2002 to present. Flag of Comoros.
1962–present. Star and crescent, green color symbolizes Islam [ 2] Azerbaijan. 1991–present. Green stands for Islam, the crescent moon is also an Islamic symbol [ 3] Ba'athist Iraq. 1991–2003. Takbir [ 4] Bahrain.
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
The Kök Bayraq remains a prominent symbol of the East Turkestan independence movement and the Uyghur diaspora. The Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946) introduced a similar star-and-crescent flag but with a green background, as well as a white flag with the Shahada written in gold. All symbols associated with the former East Turkestan ...