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Evidence for At-Tab wa-d-Dukk
4 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1501
Type Ethnography
Location Palestine Arabia
Date 1694-01-01 - 1694-12-31
Rules 4x13, 19, 21, or 29 board. The number of pieces per player equals the number of spaces in a row, which begin the game arrayed in the outer rows of the board. Four sticks, each with a white side and a yellow side. Throws equal the number of white sides which fall up; when only yellow sides are up the throw equals 6. A throw of 1, 4, or 6 grants another throw to the player. Players perform all of their throws first, and then move pieces according to the values of the throws without subdividing the value of a single throw. Players cannot move their pieces until the throw a 1. Pieces cannot move past one another in the home row. Each piece in the home row must individually be unlocked with a throw of 1 before it can move. In the central rows, when two of a player's pieces land on the same spot, they become a king and can be moved as one piece. There is no limit to the number of pieces in the king. They may be uncoupled with a throw of 1, or another throw which removes that number of pieces from the king. When a player's piece lands in a space occupied by an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is removed from the board. Play progresses from left to right in the player's home row, and then from right to left in the second row, left to right in the third row, and then right to left in the opponent's row. When a piece enters the opponent's row, it cannot move if there are other pieces which can be moved. The player to capture the most of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content Detailed description of Tab al-Qasab from Hyde's De Ludis Orientalibus.
Confidence 100
Source Hyde, T. 1694. De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo: Historia Nerdiludii, hoc est Dicere, Trunculorum, cum quibuidam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum Gentium Ludis tam Politicis quam Bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multo minus visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam melius quam hactenus factum est explicantur. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano.
Id DLP.Evidence.1502
Type Ethnography
Location 30° 2'29.49"N, 31°13'56.00"E
Date 1762-01-01 - 1762-12-31
Rules 4x21 board. Each player with as many pieces as there are spaces in one row. Pieces begin in the outer rows of the board. Four sticks used as dice, black on one side, white on the other. Throws equal the number of black sides which fall up; when only white sides are up the throw equals 6. A throw of 1, 4, or 6 grants another throw to the player. Each piece in the home row must individually be unlocked with a throw of 1 before it can move. Play progresses from left to right in the player's home row, and then from right to left in the second row, left to right in the third row, and then right to left in the opponent's row.
Content Description of the rules of Tab wa Dukk, as played by a Maronite in Cairo. Nieburh 1774: 172-173.
Confidence 100
Source Niebuhr, C. 1774. Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern. Copenhagen: Nicolaus Müller.
Id DLP.Evidence.1503
Type Contemporary text
Location 30° 2'29.49"N, 31°13'56.00"E
Date 1523-01-01 - 1566-12-31
Rules Name of the game, four sticks as dice.
Content "Ibn Hajar al Haytami refers to at-tab wa-d-dukk in these words: "Forbidden is the game called by the common people at-tab wa-d-dukk, for it depends on what is brought out by the four rods (qasabat). there is some possible reservation (as to its being forbidden), if it is dree from gambling and foolishness, but it leads to them." Rosenthal 1975: 44-45.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite
Genders Male
Source Rosenthal, F. 1975. Gambling in Islam. Leiden: Brill.
Id DLP.Evidence.1504
Type Contemporary text
Location 30° 2'29.49"N, 31°13'56.00"E
Date 1248-01-01 - 1310-12-31
Rules Name of the game
Content "Apparently, the oldest preserved reference to it is to be found in a long poem by Ibn Daniyal (d. 710/1310): And I fell in love with the boys, then reverted/to being young, till I went back to grade school./ Every fawn intoxicates and thus kills his lover,/When he gives him the wine of spittle to drink./ I studied cheating, till I/ became the imam of dice (ki'ab) playing./ Then I gambled among them with date pits./ And with d-dukk at times and at-tab." Rosenthal 1975: 45.
Confidence 100
Ages Child
Genders Male
Source Rosenthal, F. 1975. Gambling in Islam. Leiden: Brill.
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