 | Elwood Morris Wherry - Koran - 2000 - 410 pages
...the name of lots the commentators agree that all other games whatscever, which are subject to ha2ard or chance, are comprehended and forbidden, as dice,...allow to be lawful (though it has been a doubt with some),4 because it depends wholly on skill and management, and not at all on chance: but then it is... | |
 | Bryan S. Turner - Civilization, Islamic - 2000 - 608 pages
...insulting of those who lost. Under the name of lots the commentators agree that all other games whatsoever, which are subject to hazard or chance, are comprehended...of justice. Chess is almost the only game which the Mohammedan doctors allow to be lawful (though it has been a doubt with some), because it depends wholly... | |
 | 1861 - 639 pages
...insulting of those who lost. Under the name of lots the commentators agree that all other games whatsoever, which are subject to hazard or chance, are comprehended...of justice. Chess is almost the only game which the Mohammedan doctors allow to be lawful (though it has been a doubt with some), because it depends wholly... | |
 | 1881 - 644 pages
...tables, &c. And they are reckoned so ill in themselves, that the testimony of him who plays at them ie, by the more rigid, judged to be of no validity in a court of justice. Chess is almost ttoo:onty game which the Muhammedan doctors allow to be lawful (though it has been a doubt with some),... | |
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... tables, &c. And they are reckoned so ill in themselves, that the testimony of him who plays at them is, by the more rigid, judged to be of no validity in a court of justice. Chess is almost the only game which the Mohammedan doctors allow to be lawful... 
