The depiction of the crescent-and-star or 'star inside crescent' as it would later develop in Bosporan Kingdom is difficult to trace to Mesopotamian art.Д®xceptionally, a combination of the crescent of Sin with the five-pointed star of Ishtar, with the star placed inside the crescent as in the later Hellenistic-era symbol, placed among numerous other symbols, is found in a boundary stone of Nebuchadnezzar I (12th century BC found in Nippur by John Henry Haynes in 1896). , as a determiner for the word for 'month', књЈbd. N14) appear in ligature, forming a star-and-crescent shape The Egyptian hieroglyphs representing 'moon' ( Unicode introduced a 'star and crescent' character in its Miscellaneous Symbols block, at U+262A (вЄ). The connotation is widely believed to have come from the flag of Ottoman Empire, whose prestige as an Islamic empire and caliphate led to the adoption of its state emblem as a symbol of Islam by association. Unlike the cross, which is a symbol of Jesus' crucifixion in Christianity, there is no solid link that connects the star and crescent symbol with the concept of Islam.

In the later 20th century, the star and crescent have acquired a popular interpretation as a ' symbol of Islam', occasionally embraced by Arab nationalism or Islamism in the 1970s to 1980s but often rejected as erroneous or unfounded by Muslim commentators in more recent times. The same symbol was used in other national flags introduced during the 20th century, including the flags of Azerbaijan (1918), Pakistan (1947), Malaysia (1948), Singapore (1959), Mauritania (1959), Kashmir (1974), Uzbekistan (1991), Turkmenistan (1991) and Comoros (2001).

Other states formerly part of the Ottoman Empire also used the symbol, including Libya (1951вЂ“1969 and after 2011), Tunisia (1831) and Algeria (1958). The Ottoman flag of 1844, with a white ay-yД±ldД±z ( Turkish for 'crescent-star') on a red background, continues to be in use as the flag of the Republic of Turkey, with minor modifications. It rose to prominence with its adoption as the flag and national symbol of the Ottoman Empire and some of its administrative divisions ( eyalets and vilayets) and later in the 19th-century Westernizing tanzimat (reforms). The combination is found comparatively rarely in late medieval and early modern heraldry. In numismatics in particular, the term crescent and pellet is used in cases where the star is simplified to a single dot. The star, or Sun, is often shown within the arc of the crescent (also called star in crescent, or star within crescent, for disambiguation of depictions of a star and a crescent side by side). Coins with crescent and star symbols represented separately have a longer history, with possible ties to older Mesopotamian iconography.

Both elements have a long prior history in the iconography of the Ancient Near East as representing either the Sun and Moon or the Moon and Venus (Morning Star) (or their divine personifications). The symbol is the conjoined representation of a crescent and a star. The conquering Muslim rulers kept the symbol in their coinage during the early years of the caliphate, as the coins were exact replicas of the Sassanian coins. During the 5th century, it was present in coins minted by the Persian Sassanian Empire the symbol was represented in the coins minted across the empire throughout the Middle East for more than 400 years from the 3rd century until the fall of the Sassanians after the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century. 300 BC, though it became more widely used as the royal emblem of Pontic king Mithradates VI Eupator after he incorporated Byzantium into his kingdom for a short period. It was developed in the Greek colony of Byzantium ca. The star and crescent is an iconographic symbol used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire, with numerous modern countries still using it as a national symbol. The Adoration of the Magi by Stephan Lochner on the left, the crescent and star is depicted in the flag of representatives of Byzantium.

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