Dune, Islam & Religion

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  @LetsTalkReligion · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Update: I have now read the first three books, finally. Greatly enojoyed it. Aside from the already pointed out errors below, my analysis remains unchanged.<br><br>As usual, some corrections:<br>- I refer to the &quot;male Bene Gesserit&quot;. This is based on information in the Dune Encyclopedia, where they talk about the males of the lineage back on earth lost the ability of the other memory. My mistake here was calling these males &quot;Bene Gesserit&quot; at all, since this history takes place way before that name or the form of the order was etablished much later, at which point it is a female order exclusively. The ancestors of the Bene Gesserit lived back on earth, and those are the people I am referring to in the video.<br>- It also appears that the particular way I describe the Butlerian Jihad as a &quot;machine uprising&quot; comes more so from the writings of Brian Herbert, and that this event might have bee conceived differently in the original novels.<br>- The &quot;water of life&quot; doesn&apos;t necessarily appear to be the actual blood of the worms itself.

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• TH

  @themostabdu · 1 year ago

  Saying Ruh spirit is like saying Chai tea.

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• WI

  @wishwewere1256 · 2 years ago (edited)

  As a Muslim, Dune was so refreshing to watch. Finally a movie where the Muslims have more depth than just Oonga-boonga terrorists.<br><br>edit: I&apos;m aware the Fremen are fictional, and they are still shown in a negative light. I don&apos;t expect a positive representation of Muslims in mainstream movies and media, as that would cause a collapse of billion-dollar industries, so I&apos;ll take what I can get.

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• PR

  @Prince_EssVR · 1 year ago

  Making a video essay about a book you didn&apos;t read all the way through is just wilddddd

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• JO

  @johnlogan3096 · 2 years ago

  One correction: The Butlerian Jihad wasn&apos;t a machine upraising, that was a far later interpretation by Frank Herbert&apos;s son. In the first 6 books it was humans using machines the control other humans; think something like mass Ai surveillance and monitoring to empower a small elite, not Skynet.

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• EC

  @ecta9604 · 2 years ago

  I think one of the most fascinating things about Dune is how it portrays the future of religion. I feel like we have no problem with extrapolating how technical or scientific things might develop in the future, but it’s less common to explore how religion might develop as time goes on.

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• MR

  @MrAngryMobster · 2 years ago

  I just wanna say you&apos;re pronounciation for the islamic terms are absoloutely spot on and really does them justice. Hearing someone let alone a foreigner nail the &quot;gh&quot; sound in &quot;ghaib&quot; or &quot;Rh&quot; sound in &quot;Ruh&quot; is really amazing.

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• BL

  @BlizzardofKnives · 2 years ago

  Me describing Dune Part 1 to my sister before seeing Dune Part 2. &nbsp;“Space Europeans are invading space Arabia because they want space cocaine”.

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• CA

  @cabbytabby · 2 years ago

  “Padishah Emperor” is from the Persian language. Padishah means emperor

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• EH

  @ehabebrahem1295 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Here&apos;s another term , arrakis came from the arabic word الراقص , which mean the dancer and that describes the man who walks in front of camles as a leader and he avoids dunes in desert so he is kind of a dancer ,which describes the freman famous walk to avoid the warms, and arab astronomers gave this name to bunch of stars that it&apos;s light appear to be dancing when watching at night.

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• KA

  @kayaou9852 · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Too many houses and Too many names&quot; while knowing all Islamic figures&apos; names; Arabic pronunciation their sects, teachers, and students.<br><br>Edit: it was a compliment for his passion and dedication to his field of expertise.<br> I never read Dune.

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• MI

  @michaelantosch9888 · 2 years ago

  One thing that the films conveyed very well was the fact that the Lisan al-Ghaib beliefs of the Fremen were implanted by the Bene Gesserit so that they could &quot;tap into&quot; it and manipulate if they were ever in danger. A major theme of the series, especially as it moves past the first book is how Paul and Lady Jessica stoked the fervor and fanaticism of the Fremen for political/revenge purposes, but it then gets massively out-of-hand and they are unable to keep control of it.

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