While the Ottoman Empire ruled the Muslim world, the star and crescent ... which holds everything together. This symbol derives its name from a double-edged sword, shown in the middle of the ...

Islam is the name of the religion, and its followers are known as Muslims. Muslims believe there is one true God, called Allah (the Arabic word for God). In Arabic the word Islam means 'submission ...

There are Muslims who reject the crescent as an Islamic symbol. One theory is that it was actually a symbol of the pre-Islamic – and, for that matter, pre-Christian – city of Byzantium ...

Khayyat, the Friday prayers leader of the city of Saqqez in Iran's Kordestan province, stated that Imam Mahdi (May God hasten ...