The Rub el Hizb (Arabic ربع الحزب, rubʿ al-ḥizb) is an Islamic symbol consisting of two overlapping squares with a circle in its centre. The symbol is used in the Qur’an to indicate the end of a chapter.
Rub el Hizb and its variation, the al-Quds star, are featured on a number of flags, coats of arms and emblems. Curiously, or maybe not, the modern coat of arms of Uzbekistan looks very much like the old coat of arms of Uzbek SSR, except the place of hammer and sickle ☭ is now taken by much larger Huma bird while the Rub El Hizb replaced the red star ★. Yet the five-pointed star is not gone: the star and crescent ☪ now live within the Rub El Hizb.
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