Editing Shatranj (section)

===Early Arabic literature===
During the [[Islamic Golden Age]], many works on shatranj were written, recording for the first time the analysis of [[chess opening|opening moves]], [[chess problems|game problems]], the [[knight's tour]], and many more subjects common in modern chess books. Many of these manuscripts are missing, but their content is known due to compilation work done by the later authors.{{sfn|Murray|1913}}

The earliest listing of works on chess is in the ''[[Al-Fihrist|Fihrist]]'', a general [[bibliography]] produced in 377 [[Anno Hegirae|AH]] (988 AD) by [[Ibn al-Nadim]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nadīm (al)|author-link=Ibn al-Nadim|first= Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq| title=The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture|editor-last=[[Bayard Dodge|Dodge]] |editor-first=Bayard |place=New York & London|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1970|page=341|volume=i}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Nadīm (al-)|author-link=Ibn al-Nadim|first=Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq| title=Kitāb al-Fihrist|editor-last=[[Gustav Leberecht Flügel|Flügel]]|editor-first= Gustav|place=[[Leipzig]]|publisher=F.C.W. Vogel|year=1872|page=567 (p.155)|language=ar|url= https://archive.org/details/KitabAlFihrist/page/n565}}</ref> It includes an entire section on the topic of chess, listing:
* [[Al-Adli ar-Rumi|Al-Adli]]'s ''Kitab ash-shatranj'' ('Book of Chess')
* [[Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi|Ar-Razi]]'s ''Latif fi 'sh-shatranj'' ('Fun with Chess')
* [[As-Suli]]'s ''Kitab ash-shatranj'' (two volumes)
* Al-Lajlaj's ''Kitab mansubat ash-shatranj'' ('Book: Strategies of Chess')
* B. Aluqlidisi's ''Kitab majmu' fi mansubat ash-shatranj'' ('Book: Intent of Strategies of Chess')

There is a passage referring to chess in a work said to be by [[al-Hasan al-Basri]], a philosopher from [[Basra]] who died in 728 AD.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} The attribution of authorship is dubious, however.