medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> The popular explanation given by the muslims of
> Syria, Lebanon, Bosnia, etc.
> is that the muslim beads were adopted from the
> prayer ropes, komboskinia, of
> the Christian monks and nuns of the East. Such
> beads began to be used in
> the 4th century in the deserts and monasteries of
> Egypt, Syria, Africa and
> by the 8th century had spread across all the Eastern
> Christian world.
When did the Eastern church reject the beads in favor
of knotted wool?
Andrea Hughett Luxenburg
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