Flag of Saudi Arabia

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Flag of Saudi Arabia
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg
Vexillological symbol : Service and war flags on land and at seaFlag display is designed so that the leech is on the rightFlag is two-sided and looks different on the back?
Aspect ratio: 2: 3
Officially accepted: March 15, 1973

The flag of Saudi Arabia was introduced in 1932 and adopted in its current form on March 15, 1973.

Meaning and description

The national flag shows a white, horizontally arranged sword on a green background, above it white Arabic letters. Green is the color of Islam , more precisely the color of Muhammad . The scriptures reproduce the creed of Islam ( Shahāda ):

لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱللَّٰهِ
Lā ilāha illā 'llāhu Muḥammadun rasūlu' llāhi :
There is no deity but God and Muhammad is his messenger .

The smooth sword symbolizes the military triumphs of Islam, the Saud family and the Wahhabis. It represents justice and righteousness.

The two sides of the flag have the same design so that the Shahāda can be read from right to left on both sides: on the front, the reading direction runs from the flight section towards the leech , on the back from the leech towards the flight section. The sword handle is positioned on both sides under the beginning of the Shahāda, so that the point of the sword points on the front in the direction of the liek and on the back in the direction of the flight part.

protocol

Mourning flags for the victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in Hong Kong . The flag of Saudi Arabia remains at full height.

Because of the Islamic creed (Shahāda) depicted on the flag, the flag may not be raised at half-mast .

The creed also forces the Saudis to treat the flag with even greater respect than is usually the case with national flags. For example, a Saudi is not allowed to dispose of or destroy a depicted national flag because of the Shahada. This leads to problems in particular when international companies, unaware of this fact, print the Saudi national flag on disposable items (packaging, cans, etc.), for example to mark a list of ingredients in Arabic.

history

The Saudi Arabian flag is derived from the flag of Najd , one of the predecessor states of Saudi Arabia. For the flag of Hejaz , the other predecessor state, see here .

  • Historic flag? Flag of the Ottoman Empire, from 1914 also flag of the Najd, probably until 1915

  • Historic flag? Flag of Najd (1921-1926)

  • Historic flag? Flag from 1932 to 1934

  • Historic flag? Flag from 1934 to 1938

  • Historic flag? Flag from 1938 to 1973

More flags

Saudi Arabian and British flags in London on the occasion of a state visit

  • Trade flagFlag display is designed so that the leech is on the rightFlag is two-sided and looks different on the back? 2: 3 trade flag

  • War flag at seaFlag display is designed so that the leech is on the rightFlag is two-sided and looks different on the back? 1: 2 naval war flag

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Flags of Saudi Arabia  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saudi Arabia. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Saudi Arabia: The Reverse of the Flag , FOTW Flags Of The World.
  3. ↑ Erich Topf : The formation of states in the Arab parts of Turkey since the World War by origin, importance and viability (= Hamburg University. Treatises from the field of foreign studies . Volume 31, series A. Law and political sciences. Volume 3). Friedrichsen, de Gruyter & Co, Hamburg 1929, p. 116