Crescent Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
A crescent is the shape you get if you cut out of a circle another circle of roughly the same size, but offset to one side. You might also describe it as the shape the lit side of a sphere takes on if, in respect to the viewer, the light source is behind and to one side of the sphere (as in a crescent moon).
The word Crescent appears in the name of some places:
The crescent is also often used to symbolize the Islamic faith. However, it should be noted that the crescent was not a symbol used for Islam by Muhammad or any other early Muslim rulers, in fact the Islam is against appointing "Holy Symbols". Despite that the 5-branch star is quite often used as the symbol of the Islam. The crescent originated with the Turks and their Shamanistic past in which they used to worship celestial symbols and was first seen on the flag of the Ottoman Empire. Since then it has gone on to be used on the flags of Algeria, Comoros, Mauritania, Pakistan, Malaysia, Tunisia, Turkey and other Turkic/Islamic nations. But it is interesting to notice that very few Arab nations use the symbol. Morocco, which has never known the Turkish occupation, has only a 5-branch star on its flag. The new, American-designed, post-Saddam Iraqi flag uses that symbol as well.This is of importance, since many Christian fundamentalists such as Jack Chick use this symbolism to make a claim that Allah was in fact a moon-god worshipped by the pre-Islamic Turks. This argument is sometimes used to argue that the god of Islam is different from that of the Jews or Christians.
The crescent has also been used in medical logos.
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