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Zulfiqar (Arabic: ذُو ٱلْفَقَار‎, Ḏū-l-Faqār, IPA: [ðu‿l.fa.qaːr]), also spelled Zu al-Faqar, Zulfiqar, Dhu al-Faqar, Dhulfaqar or Dhulfiqar, is the sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib. It was historically frequently depicted as a scissor-like double-bladed sword on Muslim flags, and it is commonly shown in Shia depictions of Ali and in the form of jewelry functioning as talismans as a scimitar terminating in two points.

The meaning of the name is uncertain. The word ḏu (ذُو‎) means possessor, master, and the idafa construction possessor of... is common in Arabic phraseology, such as in Dhu al-Qarnayn, Dhu al-Kifl, Dhu al-Qadah and Dhu al-Hijjah.

The meaning of faqār (فَقَار‎), means splitter, differentiatior. It is often vocalized as fiqār instead of faqār; Lane cites authorities preferring faqār and rejecting fiqār as vulgar, but the vocalization fiqār still sees the more widespread use. The word faqār has the meaning of the vertebrae of the back, the bones of the spine, which are set in regular order, one upon another, but may also refer to other instances of regularly spaced rows, specifically it is a name of the stars of the belt of Orion.

Interpretations of the sword's name as found in Islamic theological writings or popular piety fall into four categories:

reference to the literal vertebrae of the spine, yielding an interpretation in the sense of the severer of the vertebrae; the spine-splitter reference to the stars of the belt of Orion, emphasizing the celestial provenance of the sword interpretation of faqār as an unfamiliar plural of fuqrah notch, groove, indentation, interpreted as a reference to a kind of decoration of regularly spaced notches or dents on the sword reference to a notch formed by the sword's supposed termination in two points

The latter interpretation gives rise to the popular depiction of the sword as a double-pointed scimitar in modern Shia iconography. Heger (2008) considers two additional possibilities:

the name in origin referred simply to a double-edged sword (i.e. an actual sword rather than a sabre or scimitar), the μάχαιρα δίστομη of the New Testament fiqār is a corruption of firāq distinction, division, and the name originally referred to the metaphorical sword discerning between right and wrong.

Middle Eastern weapons are commonly inscribed with a quote mentioning Zulfiqar, and Middle Eastern swords are at times made with a split-tip in reference to the weapon.

Zulfiqar was frequently depicted on Ottoman flags, especially as used by Janissaries cavalry, in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Zulfiqar is also frequently invoked in talismans. A common talismanic inscription or invocation is the double statement:

لَا سَيْفَ إِلَّا ذُو ٱلْفَقَارِ وَلَا فَتَىٰ إِلَّا عَلِيٌّ‎ lā sayfa ʾillā ḏū l-faqāri wa-lā fatā ʾillā ʿalīyun There is no sword but the Zulfiqar, and there is no youth but Ali

The order of the two-part phrase is sometimes reversed, instead saying there is no youth but Ali, and there is no sword but the Zulfiqar. A record of this statement as part of a longer talismanic inscription was published by Tewfik Canaan in The Decipherment of Arabic Talismans (1938). Heger (2008) speculates that the talismanic formula may be old and may have originated as a Christian invocation.

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