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Those who are familiar with Frank Herbert's famous novel Dune will notice his analogy for the spice, and the surrounding struggle for it, with the crude oil of the Middle East. The novel is symbolic about the dependence of the West on the oil, and the power struggles to control this valuable resource. But what is not so obvious to the average Western reader, is the sheer quantity of terms that Herbert borrowed from Arabic and Islamic culture, old and new, and incorporated them into his novels. Much later, in or so, I watched a documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make Dune into a movie, which never came to fruition, but was Frank Herbert and His Classic Novel Dune for its time.

In this article, I try to explain in detail where Frank Herbert got his names, concepts, and words from. This https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/essay/benedick-and-beatrice-argument-quotes/trojan-war-and-troy.php is not meant to be a literary nor an exhaustive topical critique of the novels, which I am cannot fully do, because simply, I did not read the original novels.

I have watched and enjoyed the movie and the mini-series, and read summaries of the novels. Instead, this article is a linguistic and etymological study of the major aspects of Dune as they pertain to Middle East, Arabic, and Islam. I should note here that not everything in Dune is derived from Arabic or is of Islamic origin.

There are other influences for sure. For example, Atreides is directly taken from Homer's Iliad, and is hence of Greek mythological origin.

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The Kwisatz Haderach is a Hebrew term. Although these and others have different origin, it can be conceded that Islamic and Arabic themes are the ones that Frank Herbert used the most in his Dune series. For those who are unfamiliar with the novels or the movie or click mini-series, here is a quick briefing of the setting: On the planet Arrakis, there is a very precious commodity, called Melange, or the spice.

This commodity is only found on this desert inhospitable planet.

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The spice is necessary for intergalactic space travel. The powerful merchant guild requires it. An emperor controls the mining of the spice through two warring houses, the Atreides and the Harkonen. The native inhabitants of the planet are Hiis Fremen, tribal desert nomadic people who know how to survive there. Paul is exiled, then works up an alliance with the Fremen, and becomes their leader.

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He then leads the resistance movement against the Harkonen and the emperor, reclaiming his family's heritage as just rulers. There are many other details that I skimmed over e.

What is not Herbrrt known are the various Islamic undertones, and Arabic etymologies that Frank Herbert put in Dune. The purpose of this article is to try to list these themes, and trace them back to whatever Islamic concept there is if any. The following list is derived from the above linked Lexicon, with some of my own addition.

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I try to explain what the term means in Herbert's novel, and what possible Arabic or Islamic terms it was derived from, and their original meaning. As per the request of a visitor, I added the possible Arabic origin, in Arabic text next to each title. The women's quarters would be called Haramlik, were the word Harem in Western languages were derived. There are palaces in Egypt that still have the name Salamlek and Haramlek derived from the ex-Royal lCassic who were of Turkish culture, but Albanian ancestry.]