{"id":662,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/sharifian-colors\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:44","slug":"sharifian-colors","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/glossary\/sharifian-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharifian colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The **Sharifian colours** are the four tinctures \u2014 black, white, green and red \u2014 chosen by the Hashemite Sharif Hussein of Mecca for the Flag of the Arab Revolt of 1916. They are the immediate origin of the modern pan-Arab palette and survive in the closely related flags of Jordan, Palestine and historic Iraq, Syria and Hejaz. The arrangement combines a red triangle at the hoist with three horizontal bands of black, white and green.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The flag of Jordan, with its white seven-pointed star on the red hoist triangle, retains the Sharifian arrangement almost unaltered.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [pan-arab-colors](\/glossary\/pan-arab-colors\/), [horizontal-tricolour](\/glossary\/horizontal-tricolour\/), [tincture](\/glossary\/tincture\/), [charge](\/glossary\/charge\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-662","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}