Talk:Auda Abu Tayi

Auda's Grave
Talking with a member of the Howeitat, they are certain that Auda is buried near Ma'an and not in Amman. Does any one have the exact location ? Dilmunian (talk) 06:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC) You are mistaken please contact me on: abutaieh@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.247.91.213 (talk) 19:37, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I took the grave location from the Arabic wikipedia article on Auda - not sure where its information was sourced from. To be honest I would have thought it more likely that he was buried in / near Ma'an, so they may be right....Svejk74 (talk) 09:37, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Auda's Son
Auda's son was consulted in the preparation of some works on T.E. Lawrence, but is he still alive ? Dilmunian (talk) 06:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Born in 1885?
Before that surely?! 220.255.7.238 (talk) 02:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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Report by French Military Mission Sergeant Marcel Matte
I am placing this here because my first two edits on other pages just disappeared from the pages.

So I am putting this here in the hope that it stays here long enough that others can take it and put it up on the actual page:

From 'The Journal of the T.E.Lawrence Society' Vol XX (2010/11), No. 2 ISSN 0963-1747 published by the T.E.Lawrence Society, chapter

'French Eye-Witness Accounts of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, Part 2' by Christopher Leclerc.

'Notes on Articles and Contributors'

'The second text is an article by another member of the French Hejaz Military Mission, Sergeant Marcel Matte, that was first published in

'Les Nouvelles Litt[/e]rairrs' (March 1963).

This article was prompted by the impending release of David Lean's film 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) and Matte's concern to raise what he considered to be a proper awareness and appreciation of the French contribution to the Arab Revolt.

Page 95, Marcel gives his opinion:

'The personality of Auda Abu Tay [sic] is much exaggerated: we are told that: 'He had come down to us like a knight-errant, chafing at our delay in Wejh, anxious only to be acquiring merit for Arab freedom in his own lands.' This is obviously exaggerated: carried along by the style given to the account, the author creates a portrait of this Bedouin chief far finer than reality. The character, whom we saw several times at Wejh, was not of this high calibre - he was a Bedouin, sly, wily and avaricious’

ErichErlichman (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Rename article
His name was Auda abu Tayi: 'abu' means 'father of' in Arabic and is a common form of name. 'Ibu' is a mistransliteration of the Arabic. This article should be renamed Auda abu Tayi. 86.143.69.7 (talk) 12:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)