What is the significance of an eight-sided star?

Answer 1

Throughout Islamic history, geometrical shapes were percieved as representative of the respect and reverence devout Moslems have toward the blessings of Allah and His glory. Many devout Moslems used geometrical shapes in decorating the page margins of the hand-written Korans to indicate their reverence and belief in His words and existance. In their caligraphic hand writting of the Koran, they used eight-sided stars within the caligraphic inscriptions decorating the margins of each page of the holy Koran and used the same stars to decorate the area on the walls behind elevated seats were Islamic preachers sat to give their sermons in the mosque. And in the early days of Islam, two square shapes of Kaaba (which is considered a square cube) were super-imposed on each other to create the eight-sided star to represent the victory of Islam on pagans which used the Kaaba building before Moslems to worship stone idols. Thus the eight-sided star was first used in Islamic caligraphy as a revered Islamic sign donating victory and is now drawn on many objects to indicate reverence toward the Islamic faith. Syrian Hisham