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Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1880, Vol. 12 The reason for the selection of the number ninety-nine, in relation to these Divine Titles, is that the chaplet or rosary used by Muslims in their daily devotions, contains ninety nine beads, divided into three sections of thirty-three each. The greater chaplets of the Dervish orders contain nine hundred and ninety-nine. Possibly, nine hundred and ninety is the true number - ten times that of the ordinary chaplet. They are spoken of as containing a thousand; even, a thousand and one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.