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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 136

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02broadNO SINGLE PIN

7th–11th centuries

Arabic-speaking chess cultures

checkmate DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Arabic chess usage receives the Persian expression while a native Arabic “has died” analysis remains a historically influential but less likely reinterpretation.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The transmission and competing interpretation are cited, but their present sources do not delimit one numeric Arabic-stage interval.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Checkmate — Word History

    Records the native Arabic “has died” analysis but judges it more plausibly a folk-etymological interpretation of a Persian loan.

    Word History: Etymology note on Arabic mātAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Chess

    Argues that early Arabic usage points to a Persian loan and that the king becomes powerless rather than dead, while documenting the competing death-word reading.

    Chess i, checkmate discussionAUDIT SOURCE ↗