Banner carried by Anṣār (الأنصار)

Item

Title

Banner carried by Anṣār (الأنصار)
flag

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Sudan
Flags and Colours

Description

Banner carried by Anṣār (الأنصار) in battle. Rough local cotton in vivid red in central section. White appliqued lettering in four lines with carefully stitched bracketing at each end, creating cartouche effect. Badly damaged on left side, although lettering (at line ends) mainly survives. The Arabic script reads:

يا الله يا رحمان يا رحيم
yā allah yā raḥmān yā raḥīm
Oh Allah, O the compassionate, O the merciful

يا حي يا قيوم يا ذالجلال والاكرام
yā ḥayy yā qayūm yā ḍhi’l-jalāl wa’l-ikrām
O ever-living, O everlasting, O Lord of Majesty and Generosity

لا الله الا الله محمد رسول الله
lā illah ill’allah muḥammad rasūl allah
There is no god but Allah [and] Muḥammad is the Prophet of Allah

محمد المهدي خليفة رسول الله
muḥammad al-mahdī khalīfat rasūl allah
Muḥammad the Mahdī is the successor of the Prophet of Allah

[FN/ON 14.8.19, FHM 2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

1870
1880

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

1600 mm x 1000 mm

Identifier

4801.1.2
GR1

Language

Rights

© Royal Engineers Museum

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