
Oliver White
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For a discussion of gaming pieces in the early Islamic world, see C. Wilkinson, Chess and Chessmen, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1943, pp. 271-9; and C. Wilkinson, Chess: East and West, Past and Present, a selection from the Gustav A. Pfeiffer Collection, New York, 1968.