Flag of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State" class="extiw" title="en:Islamic State">Islamic State</a></b> .This flag is also used by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" class="extiw" title="en:Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" class="extiw" title="en:al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a></b> (AQAP), <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/al-Qaeda_in_the_Islamic_Maghreb" class="extiw" title="en:al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb">al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb</a></b> (AQIM), and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram" class="extiw" title="en:Boko Haram">Boko Haram</a></b>.
The design shows the shahada in an arrangement that includes the image of the historical "seal of Muhammad" (more precisely, the "seal" design is based on a 1980s facsimile of Ottoman era copies of letters written and sealed by Muhammad, in which the copyists had manually inked the seal impression; the jihadist flags seen in press photographs do not show the seal as circular but in a slightly irregular shape that faithfully mimicks one particular such specimen; see w:seal of Muhammad for details). Also note that the representation of this seal formerly uploaded to commons but since deleted is merely a graphist's "fictionalisation" of what the seal might have looked like; the actual artefact on exhibit as the "seal of Muhammad" in Istanbul is rectangular)
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2013-01-16
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