User:Carpetsnake

Hi,

My specific area of interest is playing cards, especially the history of playing cards in the Middle East and Asia.

I have been researching playing cards as a hobby on and off for around 10 years.

A great deal of research has been done on the origins of playing cards, but since this goes back so far I believe that many questions on this topic will simply remain unanswered. I would like to fill in some of the blanks, however, and obtain more information from texts in languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.