The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 3 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2015 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2015
Islamic flag is a flag either representing Islam , a concept or person related to Islam, or a state, military force or other entity associated with political Islam . The flags of contemporary Islamic states tend to use one or several of the Pan-Arab colours , (black, red, white, green), and sometimes religious inscriptions such as the shahada or the takbir . The shahada has also become popular as an inscription on jihadist flags since the 1990s.1
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 664744516.
The opening as it stood in 2010
An Islamic flag is a flag that complies with Islamic rules. Traditionally Islamic flags were solid colour. The most favoured colours were black , white , red and green . A bicolour or tricolour flag can also be adopted truly as an Islamic Flag. An example of a traditional solid coloured Islamic flag would be the flag of Libya .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 367734952.
The opening as it stood in 2020 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Flags of Islamic states or other entities An Islamic flag is a flag either representing an Islamic denomination or religious order, state, civil society, military force or other entity associated with Islam.Islamic flags have a distinct history due to the Islamic prescription on aniconism , making particular colours, inscriptions or symbols such as crescent-and-star popular choices.Since the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , flags with certain colours were associated with Islam according to the traditions.Since then, historical Caliphates , modern nation states , certain denominations as well as religious movements have adopted flags to symbolize their Islamic identity.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 963709891.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Flags of Islamic states or other entities The Tawheed flag, which is commonly used as a flag representing Islam.An Islamic flag is the flag either representing an Islamic Caliphate or religious order, state, civil society, military force or other entity associated with Islam. Islamic flags have a distinct history due to the Islamic prescription on aniconism , making particular colours, inscriptions or symbols such as crescent-and-star popular choices. Since the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , flags with certain colours were associated with Islam according to the traditions. Since then, historical Caliphates , modern nation states , certain denominations as well as religious movements have adopted flags to symbolize their Islamic identity.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1175324594.
The opening as it stood in 2025
Flags of Islamic states or other entities A representation of the shahada , a symbol commonly used as a flag by various Islamist movements An Islamic flag is the flag representing an Islamic caliphate , religious order, state, civil society, military force or other entity associated with Islam. Islamic flags have a distinct history due to the Islamic prescription on aniconism , making particular colours, inscriptions or symbols such as crescent-and-star popular choices. Since the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , flags with certain colours were associated with Islam according to the traditions. Since then, historical caliphates, modern nation states , certain denominations as well as religious movements have adopted flags to symbolize their Islamic identity. Some secular states and ethnic or national movements also use symbols of Islamic origin as markers of heritage and identity.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1295488594. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
“jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
jihad
0
1
0
0
0
islamist
0
0
0
0
1
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 6 October 2023.
Then
flag that complies with islamic rules
Now
commonly used as a flag representing islam
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
