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A string of thirty-three or ninety-nine beads used for counting recitations.
Also known as: Tasbih, Islamic prayer beads, Subha, Worry beads
A misbaha is a string of beads used in Muslim practice for counting recitations, most often thirty-three beads with two dividers, or ninety-nine with three. It is a counting aid rather than a devotional object in itself, and is also carried and handled simply as a worry bead in much of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The bead count and the flat terminal piece distinguish it from a rosary or a mala.
Is a counting aid rather than an object of veneration, which is why it is handled casually — carried in a pocket, worked through the fingers in conversation — in a way that a reader used to devotional objects being handled carefully may misread.
Contexts: Religion
A line of small even circles divided into runs by two or three flat elongated separator beads, gathered at one end into a longer terminal piece with a hanging tassel.
Both are bead strings for counting recitations.