Bulan sabit

Bulan sabit adalah simbol atau lambang yang digunakan untuk mewakili fasa qamari suku pertama menyerupai bilah alat sabit, atau secara lanjutnya mewakili Bulan itu secara keseluruhannya.

Perlambangan

Dalam ilmu nujum dan purba

Simbol bulan sabit telah lama digunakan mewakili Bulan dalam astrologi dan lanjutnya perak dalam bidang alkimia;^[1] penggunaan ini dicatat seawal naskhah papirus horoskop zaman Yunani Purba.^[2]

Perkaitan dengan agama

Ia dikaitkan dengan agama Islam serta kebudayaan yang dibawanya sejak zaman Uthmaniyah di mana suatu panji diraja bulan bintang digunakan rasmi masa pemerintahan Mustafa III (1757-1774) dan kemudiannya menjadi mapan pada waktu pemerintahan sultan-sultan Abdul Hamid I (1774–1789) dan Selim III (1789-1807). Titah bertarikh tahun 1793 menyatakan bahawa kapal-kapal di tentera laut Uthmaniyyah mempunyai bendera itu.^[3] Penetapan ketat tersebut tidak disenangi penerbit-penerbit Islam yang menganggap ia suatu silap faham,^[4] perkara ini dapat ditemukan dari gambaran penulisan Orientalis Barat dari seawal tahun 1928. ^[5]

Rujukan

^ Alchemy and Symbols, By M. E. Glidewell, Epsilon.
^ Neugebauer, Otto; Van Hoesen, H. B. (1987). Greek Horoscopes. pp. 1, 159, 163.
^ İslâm Ansiklopedisi (dalam bahasa Turki). 4. Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı. 1991. m/s. 298.
^ "Like the Crusaders, the Christians of Europe were misled into a belief that the crescent was the religious symbol of Islam" Islamic Review 30 (1942), p. 70., "many Muslim scholars reject using the crescent moon as a symbol of Islam. The faith of Islam historically had no symbol, and many refuse to accept it.", Fiaz Fazli, Crescent magazine, Srinagar, September 2009, p. 42.
^ "There is no more common error than the supposition that the crescent (or rather crescent and star) is an Islamic symbol, and even approved writers on Oriental subjects are apt to fall into it." James Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Volumes 11-12 (1928), p. 145.

[1] Alchemy and Symbols, By M. E. Glidewell, Epsilon.

[2] Neugebauer, Otto; Van Hoesen, H. B. (1987). Greek Horoscopes. pp. 1, 159, 163.

[islamencyclopedia-3] İslâm Ansiklopedisi (dalam bahasa Turki). 4. Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı. 1991. m/s. 298.

[4] "Like the Crusaders, the Christians of Europe were misled into a belief that the crescent was the religious symbol of Islam" Islamic Review 30 (1942), p. 70., "many Muslim scholars reject using the crescent moon as a symbol of Islam. The faith of Islam historically had no symbol, and many refuse to accept it.", Fiaz Fazli, Crescent magazine, Srinagar, September 2009, p. 42.

[5] "There is no more common error than the supposition that the crescent (or rather crescent and star) is an Islamic symbol, and even approved writers on Oriental subjects are apt to fall into it." James Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Volumes 11-12 (1928), p. 145.

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