Arab Stars of David

When I lived in Gilo Neighborhood (South Jerusalem) I was told that this was the building of a Jordanian judge. Anyway, it's clear that this building  was under Jordanian control until 1967 and Jews were not living there at that time.

The building is located on Hebron Road between Mar Elias Monastery and Gilo  

On the columns - Arab Stars of David

Zoom-   Arab Star of David

Arab Star of David-General View

Moghul star of David

Moghul star of David

 CC picture taken by "saadsarfraz" from Flickr at

Maryam-uz-Zamani Mosque

 Maryam-uz-Zaman (1542 – 1622) was the wife of 

Mughal Emperor Akbar

The Mosque was built by her son Nuruddin Salim Jahangir in Lahore, Pakistan

stars of David painted on the walls of

Mughal Emperor Humayun's Tomb (1508 - 1556)
Delhi
India
Built in 1562 C.E.
 Designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyath, a Persian architect
CC picture taken by "Saad Akhtar" from Flickr 

Tomb of Sher Shah Suri 14th century

CC picture taken by "jyoti pb" from Flickr 

Built between 1540 and 1545

Indo-Islamic architecture

The six pointed star and the crescent

Contemporary Crescent and six pointed Star in the old City of Jerusalem.in Arabic this crescent emblem is called hilal.

Photo: Ze'ev Barkan

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It is interesting to notice that the origin of the famous Islamic symbolof the five pointed star and the crescent was not Islamic but Sassanian, and atfirst it had six points.  The fivepointed star and the crescent actually became a symbol of Islam only during the19th century, sporting on the Ottoman flag from 1793. It entered the TurkishFlag in 1923 and then it had been adopted by other Muslim countries.  Actually the Crescent and six pointed Star appearalready on a roman Denarius minted by Augustus (27 BC-CE 14)

  

Photo from Wikipedia entry: File:Augustus_denarius_coin_star_crescent

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Coin of King Juba II of Numidia 
52/50 BC – CE 23

King Juba II was a close friend of Augustus 

And on byzantine Drachma from  52-42BCE

Michael G. Morony‏in his book Iraq after the Muslim conquest p. 40 writes that the star and thecrescent were combined for the first time on the coins of Khosrau I the twentieth Sassanid Emperor (alsocalled Chosroes I, and Anushirvan  (r. 531–579.Hurmizd IV replaced the six pointed star in some of his coins with a fivepointed star. This tradition continued on coins of the seventh century.  After the conquest of Iraq the MuslimGovernment accepted  these coins as well.This tradition lasted until 695 or 696, when coins were minted without anyimages.

Picture from Wikipedia entry: Khosrau I

Yoel Natan in his book Moon-o-theism: religion of a war and moon godprophet Vol. 2 p. 434 wrote that  "Inottoman times the crescent and the star became emblems on Muslim battle flagsand royal standards.

Chief Hizir Hayreddin (Barbarossa) was the Great Admiral of the navy ofSuleiman the Magnificent from 1534 until his death on 1546. Now the flag is atthe Naval Museum of Istanbul.

Picture is copied from Wikipedia

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Christian Star surrounding Muslin Crescent in a Mosaic Pavement at the 8th century Monastery of St. Euthymius in Mishor Adumin. The Monastery  was built by members of an Arab Tribe whichlived nearby.

Photo by Sakra (c) 2011

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Provisional - 1915 overprint on 1892 Turkish stamp

Picture from Wikipedia entry Postage stamps and postal history of Turkey

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1923 Riffan Banknote
The Republic of the Rif  (North Morocco) was created in 1921
Image from Wikipedia entry Rif Republic 

Photo and text From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent

"Before the 14th century, the crescent and star does not seem to havebeen associated with Islam at all, and appears in Christian iconography. Miniature illustrating the victory of the Mongols (left) over theMamluks (right) at the Battle of Homs (14th-century illustration from amanuscript of the History of the Tatars). The flag of the Mamluks is shown as ablack star and crescent on a red field. The crescent is facing the hoist, andthe star is shown as a six-pointed mullet".

See Also an article in French
http://www.ouarzazate-1928-1956.com/pour-memoire/petite-histoire-dune-etoile-a-six-branches.html

1631- Testour mosque in Tunisia

Solomon’s seals

1631-built in

Testour mosque in Tunisia

 CC Picture by Bellyglad From Flickr

Solomon's seal in Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

On display in Museum of Islamic Art. Doha, Qatar, February 12, 2010:

http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/2010/835/jpeg/25.jpg

Carved wood panel with a geometric pattern

http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/2010/830/jpeg/14.jpg

Decorated golden disc with a blue Solomon's seal sign 


http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NsCclRFVq3monZvajYeC2A
Bowl, Syria, 14th century


http://picasaweb.google.com/drewkent619/DohaQatar0609#5351729441213905410
Twelve Solomon's seal signs surrounding 7 hexagons 

The circle the pentagram and the hexagram

Ingrid Hehmeyer wrote in her research titled “Water and Sign Magic in al-Jabin, Yemen” that analysys of manuscripts proves that the pentagram replaced the circle (“seal”) in a thirteenth century and very soon after that it was replaced or used side by side with the hexagram.

“The six-pointed star is shown in a thirteenth century and a fifteenth-century manuscript of [Ali d. 1225] al-Buni’s work [Kitab Shams al-Ma`arif wa-Lata’if al-`Awarif]…

From:  H. A. Winkler. Siegel und Charaktere in der Muhammedanischen Zauberei. Berlin and Leipzig, 1930.
J. MoG. DAWKINS wrote in his article The Seal of Solomon that the name Seal of Solomon refers to all the 7 emblems seen above, not only to the six pointed star that appears first from right. DAWKINS  adds that researchers commonly agree that the meaning of this seal is the ineffable name of God.

Lloyd D. Graham shows in his article The Seven Seals of Revelation and the Seven Classical Planets (2010) That the idea of the seven seals is shared by Islam Christianity and Judaism, and that each seal is correlated to a certain planet and to a certain color.

Ingrid Hehmeyer adds that aside from their protective role  “In the ancient and in the Islamic worlds, five- and/or six pointed stars are found on weights, stamps, coins, and seals, where they attest to the item’s validity and legitimacy”... "In Islamic Yemen, five- and six-pointed stars as geometric shapes are widespread in domestic architecture, on house facades, interior walls, doors, and windows; as part of inscriptions having a religious nature and on such religious architectural works as mosques and minarets, tombs and cenotaphs; as designs on amuletic jewellery; as graffiti on walls and rocks...and on so-called magic-medicinal bowls."

six-pointed star on magic-medicinal bowl

CC picture by Tupinambah/Flickr

Solomon's Seal & Crescent on Riff Banknote

Issued in 10 October 1923

Solomon's Seal & Crescent on Riff Banknote

Hexagrams in the Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose California

Hexagram in the Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, California  

CC picture by fritz liess from Flickr

Hexagram and Rose Cross in the Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, California  

CC picture by Michael Gray  from Flickr

Blagaj - 16th century Dervish monastery in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Hamam Ceiling Stars

some hexagrams

imitating the natural stars  in the skies

I saw this motive in other Hamam pictures

CC picture by korom (c)  from  Fickr who shot it at

 Blagaj 

 16th century Dervish monastery on the Buna River, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Six pointed star with moon

Blagaj Monastery  

CC picture by KOKONIS (c)  from  Fickr

Star of David on the wall of Jerusalem's Old City

Star of David appears on at least four reliefs in the wall of Jerusalem's Old City. Actually it is a six-pointed star which is called by Muslims Solomon's Seal. the wall was built from 1535 to 1538 by Turkish Sultan Suleiman I (the Magnificent), whose name is an Arabic translation of the Hebrew Biblical name Solomon. These reliefs are not the only reliefs which decorate the old city walls - there are more than one hundred designs, some of them showing other symbols such as the Octagram, the star with eight points.

Photographed by Zeev Barkan

Solomon's Seal opposite the entrance to the Rockefeller Museum

Its triangles turn at forty-five degrees

So that it leans at its base on two points. 

A flower with six petals appears in its center and

outwardly, there are three leaves between any two points

Solomon's Seal  at Lion’s Gate opposite the police station

On both sides there are Octagrams (stars with eight points(

In the center there’s a small Solomon's Seal surrounded by six arrows

Each of the six triangles apex is placed on the center of a circle

Thanks to Dobush who referred me to this Solomon's Seal

Solomon's Seal West to the New Gate

hexagon inside Solomon's Seal surrounded by  triangles that turn at a forty-five degrees

So that it leans at its base on two points

Solomon's Seal in the parking lot opposite the entrance to the Rockefeller Museum

The Stars’ shape is made of two parallel lines, just like in the Israeli flag - only 500 years before it…

A flower with six petals appears in its center

Solomon's Seal in Jaffa Gate
In the center
 Surrounded by another Solomon's Seal

Coin with Solomon Seal

Coin with Solomon's Seal

surrounding an Arabian Crescent  
like in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/5475620497/


  
  Gift I got from Stephanie Comfort

Begova Mosque Interior - Sarajevo 1905 1912

These pictures of Solomon’s seal sporting on old postcards were sent to me by Chastven Miloje (c) From Ashdod Israel:

Detail: Begova Mosque Interior - Sarajevo - 1905

General View: Begova Mosque Interior - Sarajevo - 1905

General View: Begova Mosque Interior - Sarajevo - 1912

Detail: Begova Mosque Interior - Sarajevo - 1912

Palestinian Hexagram in the west of Samaria

General view: Hexagram in a Palestinian building in the west of the Samaria area

© Tsvi Misinai 2010

http://www.the-engagement.org/

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Close up: Hexagram in a Palestinian building in the west of the Samaria area

© Tsvi Misinai 2010

Solomons Seal from 1087 in Cairo

Solomons Seal from 1087 appears along with many other symbols engraved in the stone of “Bab (Gate) al Futuh” at the walls of the Old City of Cairo, Egypt (bottom right 8^th symbol)

Courtesy of Jess Gambacurta from Flickr

Hamsa- Hand of Fatima- with Hexagram

Taken by: SaReGaMa 2009
Hexagram on a hamsa door knob
at a Jewish house in Haifa

Taken by: SaReGaMa 2009

Abbasid Solomon’s Seal

Abbasid Solomon’s Seal on coin - courtesy of PHGCOM from Wikipedia entry Al-Mustansir (Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242).

Thanks to Dobush for referring me to this picture.

Solomon Seals at Iran Tabriz Blue Mosque

Picture is courtesy of Eliza_Tasbihi from Flickr

Tabriz Blue Mosque was built in 1465, damaged in an earthquake in 1779, rebuilt in 1973

Moroccan Solomon Seal

Marrakech, Mosque

Courtesy of "only alice" from Flickr

Fes Mosaic

Courtesy of Pixelmaniac from Flickr

Solomon Seal in Oman, Jordan

Picture is courtesy of Jordan Horner who wrote to me that he spotted this along an abandoned house lattice at a ghost town near to Liwa, Sultanate of Oman.

Muslim Solomon Seal in Krimea

Muslim Solomon's Seal surrounding a circle appears in Krimea on a tomb in the Khan´s palace at Bakhchisaray. 

In each of the six triangles surrounding the inner hexagon, there's a small circle.

Picture is courtesy of Daniel Putík from Flickr