dune question

[jhu]

are the fremen an offshoot of muslims?

 

[Moonbeam]

You could ask the Kwisatz Haderach.

This line from the Zensufi is rather interesting:

"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away."

 

[jhu]

how exactly would i contact said kwisatz haderach?

 

[Novgrod]

The author is dead, so we can't ask him (not without holding a seance or hiring John Edward, anyway,) but many serious Dune fans believe that Frank Herbert used a blend of Sufism and Ahmadiyyah in creating the Fremen (whose religion was called "Zensunni," yielding further religious references.) Paul Atreides is rather obviously the Mahdi. (Muad'Dib, Mahdi, eh?)

Then we have the Bene Gesserit. "Bene" means "good" in Latin (the language of the Roman Catholic Church,) and some think "Gesserit" is a transformation of "Jesuit." There are similarities between the powerful Bene Gesserit order and the Jesuit Society of Jesus.

I can't access it right now, but I seem to recall that in an appendix of "Dune," Islam and Catholicism are mentioned by Herbert as predecessors of the religious environment of this future-history.


That's really interesting. Thanks for the info

 

[ElFenix]

dune, i should read that. watched both movies, played the game, but haven't read the book.

 

[Moonbeam]

I think he can be found in a melange of possibilities or the possibilities of melange, I'm not sure.

 

[Mookow]

<< dune, i should read that. watched both movies, played the game, but haven't read the book. >>



Definitely read the book(s). All six of them