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HADID: Sir Raymond Keene is an international chess grandmaster and writer. He says during al-Shafi'i's time, elites of one of Islam's greatest empires - the Abbasids of Baghdad - were mad about chess.
Islamic. Islam has long had a vexed relationship with chess, although Muslims historically helped spread the game ...
He says during al-Shafi'i's time, elites of one of Islam's greatest empires - the Abbasids of Baghdad - were mad about chess. KEENE: During the Baghdad period, the greatest chess players in the world ...