{"id":52102,"date":"2016-08-23T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52102"},"modified":"2016-08-23T19:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:39:21","slug":"the-positively-abrahamic-game-of-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52102","title":{"rendered":"The positively Abrahamic game of Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; interfaith rivalry on the checkered board ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you will be familiar with the <strong>Christian and Muslim<\/strong> playing chess in this illustration from <strong>El Libro de los Juegos<\/strong> or <strong>Book of Games<\/strong> of <strong>Alfonso X of Castile<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Book of games&quot; by Alfonso X &quot;The Wise&quot;.King of Castile and Le\u00f3n. 1238.(El libro de los juegos). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iRUgZfqSpm\">pic.twitter.com\/iRUgZfqSpm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; art (@art3666) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/art3666\/status\/754319046116605952\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; but let&#8217;s not forget that <strong>Andalusia <\/strong>was also home to learned Jews, including the great <strong>Maimonides<\/strong>. In this illustration to the same work, we see a match-up between <strong>Muslim and Jew<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Jew &amp; a Muslim playing chess in al-Andalus.<br \/>El Libro de los Juegos, commissioned by Alphonse X of Castile, 13th c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dEuwAkAfmS\">pic.twitter.com\/dEuwAkAfmS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Libroantiguo\/status\/768109882398703616\">August 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; interfaith rivalry on the checkered board ] . Many of you will be familiar with the Christian and Muslim playing chess in this illustration from El Libro de los Juegos or Book of Games of Alfonso X of Castile: &quot;Book of games&quot; by Alfonso X &quot;The Wise&quot;.King of Castile and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,1151,529,753,717,1207,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-games","category-islam","category-judaism","category-spain","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52105,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52102\/revisions\/52105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}