Early arabic chess literature

During the golden age of Arabic, many works on chess were written, recording for the first time analysis of opening games, chess problems, the knight's tour, and many more subjects common in modern chess books. A number of early arabic works on chess are missing in that while we have firm evidence of the work existing, no copy of the work is known to have survived.

The earliest listing of works on chess is in the Kitab al-fihrist, a general bibliography produced in 377 AH (988 CE) by ibn Ishaq an-Nadim, the bibliography includes an entire section on the topic of chess and it lists,

• Al-Adli[?]'s Kitab ash-shatranj (eng. book of chess)
• Ar-Razi[?]'s Latif fi'sh-shatranj (eng. Elegance in chess)
• As-Suli's Kitab ash-shatranj (two books)
• Al-Lajlaj[?]'s Kitab mansubat ash-shatranj (eng. Book of chess-positions or problems)
• B. Aliqlidisi[?]'s Kitab majmu'fi mansubat ash-shatranj (eng. Collection of chess problems)

(list based upon translation by Harold Murray)

There is a passage referring to chess in a work said to be by Hasan, a philosopher from Basra who died in 728 CE, however the attribution of authorship of this passage is in question.