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Moreover, women were quite powerful in those societies as many stories and records of queens, leaders, prophetesses, healers are being uncovered.
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In fact, archaeologists have found very little evidence of idol worshipping but lots of evidence of worship of a supreme deity.
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Just as there was a complex, technologically sophisticated Fremen civilization with millions of inhabitants in Arakis completely unnoticed by the empire, archaeological research and studies of ancient literature have found that, rather than a desolate, uncivilized wilderness, pre-Islamic Arabia was a land thriving with sophisticated civilizations and kingdoms consisting of a large number of people who were commercially, culturally and religiously well connected with the world of antiquity.įar from being a land full of idolatry and pagan-polytheism, pre-Islamic Arabia was greatly populated by Judaic, Christian and many other strands of monotheism. However, another parallel of Fremen civilization with pre-Islamic Arabia has only become salient in recent decades.
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He then uses the army of Fremen to overthrow the empire in a surprise revolution and become emperor himself.ĭune’s inspiration from the history of early Islam and 20th century oil-politics of the Middle East are unmistakable. Gradually, with the help of his special inherited abilities born out of hundred years of selective breeding, the hero convinces the Fremen that he is the prophesied messiah. When the hero’s family was treacherously sabotaged and massacred by the emperor, the hero fled to the Fremen in the desert for shelter. The turning point in the first book came when the hero’s family, an elite family from another planet, realized that there are many millions of Fremens living in Dune, unnoticed and uncared for by the empire. Timothee Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune Courtesy In response to hundreds of years of repression by the empire, the Fremen have developed a messianic religion that gives them hope that one day an outsider with extraordinary abilities will come to Arakis and lead the Fremen to freedom from the brutal grip of the empire. The Fremen are marginalized in population centres and violently crushed whenever they try to protest environment-destroying spice extraction by the company.
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One of the main themes of the first book in the Dune series is how the empire and corporate monopoly brutally repress the indigenous Fremen in pursuit of extracting spice from deserts all over Arakis. The indigenous people of the deserts of Arakis are called Fremen, a tough people who eke out a life from the forbidding deserts through ingenious technology and grit. The imperial family and all the elite families of the empire hold shares in this monopoly company and that have made them fabulously rich and powerful. The galactic empire has established a corporate company with monopoly rights to mine and sell spice from Arakis. The first theme is Dune’s very clear inspiration from the history and prehistory of the land of the Arabian Peninsula, the rise of Islam and 20th century geo-politics of oil from Arab lands.ĭune is set in a desert planet named Arakis, the planet which is the only source of a substance called spice that is indispensable for interstellar travel. I will talk about one theme in this article and leave the second for the second part of this Dune commentary. I want to talk about two of the Dune series main themes that I found to be very fascinating and relevant for our present time.
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So, if you want to be aware of an important part of elite discourse, you should watch the movie and read the book also to understand all the hullabaloo. Now a new Dune movie adaptation is onscreen and those opinion-makers are all effervescent over it. In the US, many of the most influential opinion-makers are fans of Dune and use Dune themes and jargon regularly in their comments and opinions. If the influence of a popular book is measured by the nature of its fanbase and the use of its theme in public discourse, then Dune reigns above all other popular books of sci-fi. Dune books have inspired sci-fi blockbusters like Star Wars, Matrix and many others. “Dune” by Frank Herbert is the most popular and influential science fiction book series of the last 50 years. Dune books have inspired sci-fi blockbusters like Star Wars, Matrix and many others