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Manqalah DLP Game   

Period Medieval

Region Western Asia

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Sow

Description

Manqalah is a game that was played in Southwest Asia during the tenth century. Little is known about it, but it could be the earliest attestation of the sowing type of game known from much later.

Rules

Name of the game.

Origin

Southwest Asia

Ludeme Description

Manqalah.lud

Concepts

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Reference

Murray 1951: 165.

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Sources

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Rosenthal, F. 1975. Gambling in Islam. Leiden: Brill.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.906


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