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Hello Everyone!

I been a Dune fan of the Movies for years and read the first 1/2 of the book, in needing to finish it, but I have one pressing question I have been trying to search of but can't locate any solid reading material, and likely asked a thousand times (yes I searched the forum a bit) and will likely get flamed because I am a noob but here we go.

Who or what is Maud'Dib? All I can follow is that he was a priest long before Muad' Dib came about. The book mentions the title Maud'Dib, so does the Dune miniseries. (disk 2 first title) I really do not know why the names are so very simular. You would think in a fictional universe you would try to seperate things a bit more.

Keep reading... if we tell you it will just spoil it.

Hell, you should have been able to gather that much from the movie.

Muad'dib is the Fremen name Paul Atreides chose for himself.

It is also the name of the kangaroo mouse of Arrakis for which there is a constelation of stars, the tail pointing north.

Therefore he is "the one who points the way".

Oh yeah...

Sandrider will be around to claim your water for the tribe shortly...

Thanks for the prompt replies guys. My real question is who is Maud'Dib? not Muad'Dib. These are two different names.

LINFANG wrote:Thanks for the prompt replies guys. My real question is who is Maud'Dib? not Muad'Dib. These are two different names.

My first guess would be it is just a typo but these guys have way more knowledge than I.

LINFANG wrote:Thanks for the prompt replies guys.

I exist only to serve.

LINFANG wrote:My real question is who is Maud'Dib? not Muad'Dib. These are two different names.

It is a typo. The correct spelling is muad'dib.


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Wow, so the book and the movie both messed this up? Kinda funny. I first confused "Mahdi" and "Maud'Dib" when watching the mini series. I turned on closed caption and read the part. I thought since I did not know a lot of the history and future of Dune that I was missing out on part of the Lore. Every time I searched "Maud'Dib" It flips over to "Muad'Dib" I kept running in circles.

"Maud'Dib" isn't used in the copy of Dune I have, is that a recent edition?

The movie got so much wrong that poor spelling came as no suprise.

I seem to remember other members talking about the spelling being wrong somewhere, is it the new Dune hardback?

You see, Frank Herbert's family has sold out his legacy for a few royalty checks. They don't care about quality.

Yep, the hard cover, 1st edition, found on these forums
1965. $5.95 (blue boards) (Philadelphia, Toronto Ambassador Books). Only first edition stated, with no indication of the printing, this could be a spelling error in Muad'Dib (Maud'Dib) title of 2nd part of novel (but according to Fullerton Archives that was a working title of Dune). This 'error' is in all 9 printings (BCE has the correct version though). Grey endpapers (only in 1st printing), 4 lines on the bottom of back flap (only in 1st). No ISBN number.

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No wonder I haven't seen it, it's a first edition.

If you own the Dune Mini series DVD it's on there too. Put in Disc 2. press play and a black and white title Maud'Dib

Wait a minute... you haven't even read the whole book and you bought a first edition?

I like your enthusiasm.

No like I said, I did a forum search before asking a question on here, I found that in my finding. I own the paperback.

It's not like that in the paperback, right?

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now, had you dropped in here with a bunch of half-cocked horseshit about "Maud'dib" & tried to
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This never came up for me, I never noticed a mis-spelling in any of the books or movies (in the movies I don't recall seeing it written down anyways!).

A Thing of Eternity wrote:This never came up for me, I never noticed a mis-spelling in any of the books or movies (in the movies I don't recall seeing it written down anyways!).

(I think he said it was in the subtitles.)

Freakzilla wrote:

A Thing of Eternity wrote:This never came up for me, I never noticed a mis-spelling in any of the books or movies (in the movies I don't recall seeing it written down anyways!).

(I think he said it was in the subtitles.)

Ah. I would think context would have just made it pretty clear that it was a typo anyways, but I guess I can see how that could be confusing.

The first edition indeed has the typo, but I haven't seen it elsewhere but by people who can not spell Muad'Dib correctly ... or Giedi Prime for that matter.

"Mahdi: in the Fremen messianic legend, "The One Who Will Lead Us to Paradise."

Check the back of your book for appendices. I'm not sure if 1st Ed. has one, but if it does: refer to as needed. My copy has the following:

-Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune
-Appendix II: The religion of Dune
-Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes
-Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (selected excerpts of the noble houses)
-Terminology of the Imperium (Glossary)
-Map

Hope you find what you seek

Dravition wrote:"Mahdi: in the Fremen messianic legend, "The One Who Will Lead Us to Paradise."

Check the back of your book for appendices. I'm not sure if 1st Ed. has one, but if it does: refer to as needed. My copy has the following:

-Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune
-Appendix II: The religion of Dune
-Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes
-Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (selected excerpts of the noble houses)
-Terminology of the Imperium (Glossary)
-Map

Hope you find what you seek

If its true first edition then the glossary will be in front of the text of the novel.

I thought Mahdi was Arabic for Savior, or some equivilent.

I knew a fellow named Mahdi, nice guy, from the UAE.
He seemed to have much more integrity than his Saudi buddies.