Arabic Colors Color Scheme

Black, Green, Red and White – the 4 Pan-Arab colors

The four Arabic colors come from those used by the banners of various caliphates. White was in the Umayyad Caliphate, green (the traditional color of Islam) comes from the Fatimid Caliphate, red was used by the Ottoman Empire and the Khawarji and finally black was employed in the banner of Muhammad and later in the Abbasid Caliphate. These four colors were also mentioned by Safi Al-Din Al-Hilli, an Iraqi poet, “White are our acts, black our battles, green our fields, and red our swords“.