Talk:Coat of arms of Libya
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Ok, can someone help me here, there is a picture of the coat of arms on the main Libya page and I want to put it on this page, how do I do this? --Horses In The Sky 15:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Don't worry, I figured out how to do it. --Horses In The Sky 13:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Citation needed (Hawk of Quraish)
The attribution of the eagle shape to the emblem of prophet Mohammad's tribe is strange. The running opinion says that the origin of the eagle is from the times of Salah Addin. Any one can provide a citation for that?
- I made a lot of this page from the Dorling Kindersley Complete Flags of the World Book [1] and on the Libya page it says:
"The Hawk of Quraish is the emblem of the tribe of Muhammad"
If anyone has other contradictory sources then I would interested to see them or else I guess I could use a scanned image of the page in the book as a citation. Horses In The Sky talk contributions 12:23, 21 August
- According to "Guide to the Flags of the World" by Mauro Talocci (edited and revised by Whitney Smith, 1982), the bird seen on the current Coat of arms of Egypt and Coat of arms of Iraq is called the "Eagle of Saladin", while the bird seen on the Coat of arms of Libya and the Coat of arms of Syria (and also the flag of the former Federation of Arab Republics) is indeed the "Hawk of Quraish" (or occasionally also translated "falcon"). Whether Saladin or the tribe of Quraish ever used these emblems in anything like their current form is yet another question, of course, but that's what they seem to have been called in 20th-century Arab nationalist circles... AnonMoos 21:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Which image is better?
Is Image:Libyseal.png or Image:Libya_coa.gif on commons more accurate? Libyseal.png almost exactly resembles the emblem of the former Federation of Arab Republics (but with the hawk's head facing the opposite direction, and the colors black on green instead of gold on white), while Image:Libya_coa.gif more closely resembles certain details of the emblem shown in the Talocci book (such as the legs and tail-feathers of the bird being clearly visible, and the scroll being held by the claws from above, not below), but it also has its own problems... AnonMoos 22:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
