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From: anwar@GS9.SP.CS.CMU.EDU (Anwar Mohammed)
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Subject: Re: Worry beads
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Date: 12 Apr 91 17:44:34 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.204700.24495@wpi.WPI.EDU>, irani@brahms.udel.edu (Jennifer Irani) writes:
|> 
|> I was reading a book today and there was a picture of a Kuwaiti man
|> holding beads in his hand. Under the photo it said that they were
|> "worry beads". Could someone please explain what these are.
|> 
|> Jennifer 
|> irani@brahms.udel.edu

This is called a Misbah.

-anwar