nathangibson
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2 years ago Make a correction with TEI del + @resp or similar and add a footnote in the text explaining it.
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nathangibson
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2 years ago Make a correction with TEI del + @resp or similar and add a footnote in the text explaining it.
URI of the page with the mistake
8.10
What should be corrected on the page?
From the Arabic, I think أم محمد وعبيد الل is one person with her two sons, "the mother of Muḥammad and of ʿUbayd Allāh." (ʿUbayd Allāh could be another son of al-Hādī, but I don't think he would be listed separately after the daughters.) The main question is whether she is the same person as Umm ʿĪsā, the wife of al-Maʾmūn. The reading the main text of the edition has adopted with ابنتيه ("his two daughters") apparently thinks they are 2 different women, daughters of al-Hādī. (Then maybe Umm al-ʿAbbās/Nunah would be the 2nd, but I can't find more information about her children's names.) Manuscript group A (as in note 17) has ابنيه ("his two sons", i.e., the two sons of al-Maʾmūn), which would make Umm ʿĪsā = the mother of Muḥammad and of ʿUbayd Allāh. This works historically, except that the second son is normally "ʿAbd Allāh" instead of "ʿUbayd Allāh." So I think that is the best version.
How should it be corrected?
"She was the mother of Jaʿfar ... and of Umm ʿĪsā, the wife of al-Maʾmūn and mother of his two sons Muḥammad and ʿUbayd Allāh."
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