[MR] Fwd: [SCA-Laurels] period games

[SNSpies at aol.com]

More on the Mirthfull Carpet game ...
Nancy / Ingvild
 
 
  
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That's wonderful, thank you for sharing. And here's a bit  more
on the topic (from JSTOR):

#
All the King's Toys
# Zahra  Faridany-Akhavan
# Muqarnas, Vol. 10, Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar  (1993), pp. 292-298

p295: "The most interesting toy of
Humayun,  however, was his "Carpet of Mirth," a large
round carpet painted with  astrological paraphernalia.
Humayun would sit on the Sun surrounded by his  offi-
cers and courtiers who rolled dice showing figures in var-
ious  different poses, standing, sitting, or lying down.
They were expected to do  as the roll of the dice
demanded. It must have been a hilarious sight  for
Humayun to see his serious ministers sprawled out all
over the place  in that way."


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:38 AM,   <SNSpies at aol.com> wrote:
> And we think games like Twister are  modern ...
>
> "... no Islamic carpets have survived that were  woven prior to Seljuq
> [1037-1307] times.  Before then, literary  references to carpets tend to be 
 about
> curiosities -- such as  the Carpet of Mirth, whose designs formed the basis 
 for
> a game  in which Abbasid [750-1258] courtiers were directed to strike 
curious
>  postures ..."  page 161
>
> (Irwin, Robert.  "Islamic  Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the
> Literary World".  New  York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.)
>
> Nancy /  Ingvild


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