Crescent Moon -Symbol of Islam?

Please Read Description!!!

This Documentary is Produced By Me and explains the history of the prominent Crescent Moon & Star that is found on so many flags of "Muslim Countries". The Documentary explains the Origins, Meaning, And it's adoption and association to Muslims.

Attention!

I would like to Announce, it has been brought to my Attention that the Ottomans did have the Crescent Moon as a symbol before they captured Constantinople. Nonetheless, the Documentary's main thesis "Crescent Moon" Not being the True symbol of Islam remains!

Read Excerpt: IMPORTANT

"The origins of the Crescent & Sun/star are Turkic from ancient times, pre-Islamic. The Turks believed in Shamanisim and more importantly the one supreme Sky God (Tanri) along side others gods like that of the Moon & Sun, when they roamed nomadicaly on horseback in the steppes of Siberia & central Asia.

The importance of the celestial bodies can be seen in many Turk epics, poems, songs, names etc.

One quick example is that of the legendary leader of the Western Turks, Oguz Khan, named his first 3 born Sun, Moon, & Star emphasizing the importance of the celestial objects to Turks.
*The founder of the Ottoman Turkish empire, Osman, had a dream in which he invisioned a Crescent Moon stretching over the Earth, he took it as a good sign and made it the symbol of his dynasty.

The crescent and star, while generally regarded as Islamic symbols today, have long been used in Asia Minor and by the ancient Turks, earlier than the advent of Islam. According to archaeological excavations, Göktürks used the crescent and star figure on their coins. The 1500-year-old coin includes three crescent moon figures and a star near a person. The crescent and moon was a Turkic symbol long before the Turks came in contact with the Eastern Roman Empire."




Sources:

1) Quran

2) http://islam.about.com/od/history/a/crescent_moon.htm (Basic Information)

3) http://www.flags.de/fotw/flags/isl-ori.html#qur (Prophet's Flag)

4)http://www.answers.com/Ottoman%20Flag (Ottoman Flag History)

5)http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/godkhonsu.htm (Ancient Egyptian God "Horus")

6)http://www.livius.org/cn-cs/constantinople/byzantium-greek.html (Byzantine Coin)

7) http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/starcres.html (More Byzantine/Roman Coins)

8)http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Byzantium (Constantinople's Flag and Banner)

******Special Note*****

Making this Documentary was difficult! As I had to determine falsehood from Truth, fake from legitimate. It is important for All Devout Muslims to understand that the Crescent Moon & Star maybe Haram . The Quran says it is Haram to associate any Image or symbol to Allah.

Category:

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• history

[A2Kaid]

I want to reiterate, some of the information in this documentary is incorrect i.e. some of the dates and the false statement that the Ottoman Empire adopted the Constantinople city flag. Please read the Annotations I have made which correct the mistakes. Of course these mistakes were unintentional.

[A2Kaid]

@JohnTheHutDweller

As for the date "BCE 100-0" that should have been written as "BCE 100-1" years. For you to selectively pick the two errors and extrapolate to discredit my video and to suggest that I'm intentionally lying and distorting I find quite pathetic. Most of the information is correct and the point being made in the video is truthful. The mistakes will be corrected. Though I do appreciate some criticism about my videos.

[A2Kaid]

@JohnTheHutDweller In regards to the image of the "Byzantine coin" I show it's actually a coin from the Roman Empire and I think it's a coin of Roman Emperor Hadrian the coin also shows the name "Hadrian" across the left edge of the coin. I admit that was a mistake to label that specific coin a Byzantine coin, but the other coin which appears green certainly is. To accuse me of lying is a false and unworthy charge when the mistake was unintentional. I will make corrections to the video soon.

[fahritur]

@makis15n Thank you too. Good bye..

[fahritur]

@makis15n Look you dont know turkish, you dont know ottoman turkish. I know Both. As I said three times before: Yes, there are many arabic and persian vocabulary in Ottoman turkish. Yes, you need to know these words if you want to read goverment documents from the past. BUT, the majority of vocabulary is still turkish.

And (for the 100. time) Ottoman turkish was not the language spoken by the general public. Turks spoke a pure turkish, like the language you find in Yunus Emre poetry.

[fahritur]

@makis15n Yes there are thousands of greek muslims in Turkey. Which is just a "few" compared to 75 million.

[makis15n]

I don't want to argue any more, I wish you the best for you and your family.

Thank You.

[makis15n]

fahritur No it's not MY propaganda. Authors of ottoman dictionaries they write that if you want to read the ottoman language you must know arabic and persian words.

The most turkic words added after the reform of Mustafa Kemal did or am I wrong?

The abolishment of the arabic alphabet with the latin for sure changed the language.

It's obvious and I know some examples of karamanlidika an ottoman idiom of the greeks in Capadocia wich writen in greek alphabet, they differ from modern turkish.

[makis15n]

@fahritur In wikipedia in "greek moslems" there are not few but a lot, so I idn't wrote the article about greek moslems, You can read it any time you like.

[fahritur]

@makis15n You keep repeating the same propaganda. I have answered all your claims, still you refuse to understand.

Ottoman turkish was used only by the elite, not by the common people in Ottoman times. It had many arabic and persian vocabulary in it, but it was mainly turkish. I know because I actually can READ it. There are hundreds of documents I have read. So dont try to decive people about it. I will not write more on this. I give up, you dont get. You are just uncapable of understanding.

[fahritur]

@makis15n No, not many sultans, just a few married simple girls. So whats wrong about it? Like Suleyman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana). Do you know about the love poets they have written to each other? All you see is races. But love has no race. And it does not know royalty.

[fahritur]

@makis15n I agree that the Young Turks did many wrong politics. They were influenced by western nationalism. But you are wrong about Ottoman diplomacy. It was turkish and there are thousends of documents as evidence. And Ottoman turkish is mainly turkic and was used by the palace, not the common people. The people were speaking a pure turkish, just like in Yunus Emre's poetry. European merchants called Anatolia "Turkia" because turkish was the main spoken language from the 13. century on.

[makis15n]

@fahritur NO the turkish language wasn't the most common language but the opposite was greek armenian kurdish slavic arabic and last was ottoman a language closer to persian and arabic different from todays turkish, and remember this the diplomatic language of the Ottoman Empire was also Greek! I don't hate ottomans as you said with the ottomans greeks lived for centuries (difficult YES but they lived) the Young Turks made all the distruction.