The **pan-Arab colours** are black, white, green and red, drawn from the verses of the thirteenth-century poet Safi al-Din al-Hilli that name them as the colours of Arab history: the black banners of the Abbasids, the white of the Umayyads, the green of the Fatimids and the red of the Hashemites. The Flag of the Arab Revolt of 1916 set the four together and became the model for many later national flags.
**Example**: The flags of Jordan, Palestine, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates all employ the pan-Arab colours, varying their arrangement.
**See also**: [pan-african-colors](/glossary/pan-african-colors/), [sharifian-colors](/glossary/sharifian-colors/), [horizontal-tricolour](/glossary/horizontal-tricolour/), [tincture](/glossary/tincture/)