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of the Prophet's hags was preserved as the most venerable of relics,
a palladium of victory, and that it ultimately passed into the hands
of the Ottoman rulers.
The first caliphs tried to maintain an original simplicity in their
signs, appropriate to an ascetic and fighting religion, but soon, espe-
cially under Persian influence, the style evolved into one using more
representative and pompous images. The Omayyads again used white,
and the Abbasids used black, this time probably as an expression of
deep mourning for their fallen and martyred coreligionists. There
appeared on the Abbasid banners some quotations from the Koran
as an apology for their mutiny against the Omayyads. Gradually, the
hags became symbols of the dynasty, the color depending on the
ruler's choice. Caliph al-Ma'mun, for example, preferred green.
Some early Muslim Hags have survived in Spain from the time of
the Reconquista. In the monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos there is
a magnificent banner of Sultan al-Mansur of the Almohad dynasty,
captured by King Alfonso VIII at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
in 1212. In Spain it is called A/ Pcudom & CM In the gonfalon
form, with tabbed hy,*^ this hag, dated A.H. ggq (A.D. 1140), is distin-
guished for its large size, sophisticated abstract decoration, and lines
of Koranic inscriptions. Another Hag, this time of the Almoravids,
taken at the Battle of Salado (lgqo), is preserved in the cathedral of
Toledo in Spain.
Various examples of Muslim hags can be found in Arab iconogra-
phy, particularly in the miniatures of the so-called Baghdad School
from the first half of the thirteenth century. For example, an early
twelfth-century miniature, attributed to the painter Yahya ibn Mah-
mud and illustrating a picaresque adventure, the by al-
Harirl, shows a ceremonial procession of the Arab cavalry with sev-
eral hags.They are red, green, black, and blue, rectangular, elon-
gated, fixed in Chinese fashion with the longer edge to the staff, with
tabbed Hy, and with inscriptions.
THE STOCK OF TURKISH FLAGS
We know that Hags were used by Turkish tribes living as nomads in
Central Asia. From very scanty sources it appears that their Hag cloth
was predominantly blue or red. The main hag (AaAy) was sur-
mounted by a horsetail or yaktail. Each of the twenty-four tribes of
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a palladium of victory, and that it ultimately passed into the hands
of the Ottoman rulers.
The first caliphs tried to maintain an original simplicity in their
signs, appropriate to an ascetic and fighting religion, but soon, espe-
cially under Persian influence, the style evolved into one using more
representative and pompous images. The Omayyads again used white,
and the Abbasids used black, this time probably as an expression of
deep mourning for their fallen and martyred coreligionists. There
appeared on the Abbasid banners some quotations from the Koran
as an apology for their mutiny against the Omayyads. Gradually, the
hags became symbols of the dynasty, the color depending on the
ruler's choice. Caliph al-Ma'mun, for example, preferred green.
Some early Muslim Hags have survived in Spain from the time of
the Reconquista. In the monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos there is
a magnificent banner of Sultan al-Mansur of the Almohad dynasty,
captured by King Alfonso VIII at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
in 1212. In Spain it is called A/ Pcudom & CM In the gonfalon
form, with tabbed hy,*^ this hag, dated A.H. ggq (A.D. 1140), is distin-
guished for its large size, sophisticated abstract decoration, and lines
of Koranic inscriptions. Another Hag, this time of the Almoravids,
taken at the Battle of Salado (lgqo), is preserved in the cathedral of
Toledo in Spain.
Various examples of Muslim hags can be found in Arab iconogra-
phy, particularly in the miniatures of the so-called Baghdad School
from the first half of the thirteenth century. For example, an early
twelfth-century miniature, attributed to the painter Yahya ibn Mah-
mud and illustrating a picaresque adventure, the by al-
Harirl, shows a ceremonial procession of the Arab cavalry with sev-
eral hags.They are red, green, black, and blue, rectangular, elon-
gated, fixed in Chinese fashion with the longer edge to the staff, with
tabbed Hy, and with inscriptions.
THE STOCK OF TURKISH FLAGS
We know that Hags were used by Turkish tribes living as nomads in
Central Asia. From very scanty sources it appears that their Hag cloth
was predominantly blue or red. The main hag (AaAy) was sur-
mounted by a horsetail or yaktail. Each of the twenty-four tribes of
10