Eagle saladins

The Eagle of Saladin (also Arab Adler called) is a special form of the eagle in heraldry . It was named after the Kurdish Ayyubid Sultan Saladin (1137-1193), who used the eagle shape himself.

Most of the Saladin eagles of the Arab states differ only in the breast shield and the Arabic writing in the green field under the eagle. Otherwise it is always gold with black feathers. The breastplate usually contains the Arabic colors red-white-black in vertical lines of equal size. In some cases there are green stars in the white field, the number of which varies. The former Republic of North Yemen had one star from 1962 to 1965. The United Arab Republic with Egypt and Syria had two stars from 1958 until the separation in 1961 (the United Arab Republic also minted coins with the Arab eagle). Egypt continued to use the coat of arms until 1971 and since 1984 has had a Saladin eagle without stars on its breast shield. The Iraq had from 1965 to 1992 three stars in the breastplate before instead the flag was inserted.

Libya also had no stars in its shield from 1969 to 1972, but had a different text in the tape. Today the eagle has a monochrome green shield corresponding to the national flag. The State of Palestine also uses a Saladin eagle as an emblem, the shield of which bears the vertical pattern of the flag of Palestine .

The Saladin eagle in the coat of arms of Yemen has spread wings, which can be traced back to the last coat of arms of North Yemen. In the breast shield of the eagle of the former People's Republic of South Yemen , a red star could be seen in the blue field above the Arab flag.

The Quraish hawk has since replaced some of the Saladin eagles mentioned above, for example in the coat of arms of Egypt.