OTTOMAN TURKEY AND PROVINCES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER

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SIX INLAID BLACK CORAL PRAYER BEADS
OTTOMAN TURKEY AND PROVINCES, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER
With spherical or ovoid beads, the first with large spherical beads, each copper-inlaid in a swaying pattern at each pole, with three tiered imam and silver-repousse tassel finial ; the second silver-inlaid in a similar fashion, the tassel's silver finial engraved with fish scale patterns ; the third silver inlaid with lozenge patterns, with ringed three tiered imam and modern engraved shield with a ship and floral designs; the fourth with a copper-inlaid lattice to each bead, the imam with further similar decoration, each with thirty-three beads; the fifth with silver-inlaid radiating motifs interspersed with circular mother-of-pearl inlay, the sixth with silver chevrons and circular designs above and below, each strung with twenty-three beads and modern circular shield ; each restrung
The largest 21.1/4in. (54cm.) long

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The tasbihas with thirty-three beads are used to perform dhikr - the recitation of the 99 attributes of God-saving an elongated extra bead to recite the name of ‘Allah.
The rosaries stringed with twenty-three beads might be intended to a Christian clientele and may commemorate the execution of the members of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople in June 1821.
By the time the Greek war of Independence broke out in 1821 AD, the Synod circulated a series of encyclicals in order to condemn any secessionist stance, its leaders and followers. Those did little to convince the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II who ordered the patriarch's execution for failing to strengthen and confirm the loyalty of the Orthodox Christians to the Ottoman ruler.