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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9735099, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, it is a tasbih, Islamic prayer beads, and very likely Baltic amber. This one looks like a tasbih made to reciting the 99 names of Allah:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam</a></p><p>The two smaller groups of beads are called the Imam beads, they break the 99 beads down into three sets of 33 for three different types of prayer. So this one can be used two ways, either for the three sets of prayer, or to recite the 99 names of Allah.</p><p><br /></p><p>That graduation in colour of the beads has been fashionable in Baltic amber jewellery for the last decade or so.</p><p>Baltic amber manufacturers make all-amber tasbihs for the Islamic market, but this looks to have been made outside the Baltic, with those metal filigree beads. Whoever made it probably used a regular Baltic amber necklace to compose the tasbih.</p><p>Do you know what the metal is?</p><p><br /></p><p>Many tasbihs have 33 beads. The ones with 99 or 99+1 beads, like this one probably is, are suitable to be used for reciting the 99 names of Allah as well as the three prayer rounds. The 33 bead tasbihs can be used 3 times for the same result.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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