Quraish (video game)

Quraish is a 3D real-time strategy video game produced by the Syrian studio Afkar Media and published by Dar al-Fikr in Damascus, one of the first strategy games in Arabic. It is set in the early battles of Islam: the pre-Islamic Arab tribal wars, the Ridda wars and the Rashidun Caliphate's campaigns against the Byzantine and Sasanian empires. ¹

The English Wikipedia gives its release as 2 August 2005, for Windows and later Android; the Arabic gives 2007. The museum keeps both. ¹ The English article cites a USA Today report titled "Muslims craft their own video games". ¹

The game takes its name from the tribe of Quraysh. The Arabic article counts 74 named characters, 43 battles, among them Dibba, Juwatha and al-Qadisiyya, 16 tribes and six regions, Mecca and Medina among them; the Prophet ﷺ Muhammad is among the names it mentions, and the sources read do not say how he appears in it. ¹

The sources read do not say what has become of the game. It has articles in six Wikipedia editions: Arabic, Bengali, English, Persian, Malay and Vietnamese. ²

• English Wikipedia, "Quraish (video game)", revision 1360806946. ¹
• Wikidata Q18968223. ²