Frank Herbert's Dune novels were heavily influenced by Middle ...

Before Dune, Dune, and After Dune: A Brief History of Space Lit

Frank Herbert's Dune was inspired in part by The Sabres of Paradise, a 1960 biography of Imam Shamil, a 19th century Islam uniter and freedom ...

How 'Star Wars' ripped off 'Dune' | The Week

While George Lucas clearly borrowed from Frank Herbert — and has never publicly acknowledged the inspiration, which is a chief complaint among " ...

The 'terraformed' Oregon dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic

When Frank Herbert saw how ecologists had manipulated the sands of Oregon's coast, it would influence his sci-fi novel Dune – but in the ...

“Going Native” with Dune's Paul Atreides - Imperial & Global Forum

Herbert's influences were eclectic, but one of the most obvious was the language, imagery, history, and religion of the Middle East. Herbert ...

“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages

The alien language spoken in Frank Herbert's novels carries traces of Arabic. Why has that influence been scrubbed from the films?

Dune: Part 2 criticized for its failure to include Middle Eastern and ...

Dune: Part 2 criticized for its failure to include Middle Eastern and North African influences that were so prevalent in Frank Herbert's book.

10 Things the New 'Dune' Movie Needs to Include | Futurism

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the greatest science fiction novels ... The original Frank Herbert novel is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern culture.

On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's Dune - Literary Hub

Herbert's interest in Middle Eastern history was linked to his research about deserts and the overall history of world religion. And so this ...

To Arrakis and Back: Frank Herbert's Dune in Retrospect

The Fremen, for instance, are quite plainly inspired by the bedouin Arabs not only in their stereotypical ruggedness but in their austere ...

The Oregon Coast Inspired the Novel 'Dune.' Does the Sci-Fi Tale ...

The Oregon Coast Inspired the Novel 'Dune.' Does the Sci-Fi Tale Foreshadow Its Fate? The Oregon ecosystem that resembles fictional “Arrakis” is ...

Decolonizing Dune: Reimagining MENA and the Muslim World

Frank Herbert's novel and Denis Villeneuve's film borrow from Middle Eastern cultures, but what does that really mean?

Dune and the Arab world: How the interstellar epic avoids Middle ...

Long before 9/11 forced the Middle East and Islam to the forefront of western popular culture there was Dune, Frank Herbert's hugely influential ...

Book Club Questions: Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune was partly inspired when Herbert learned about a government project that sought to control the spread of sand dunes by using an ...

Review of Tom Huddleston's The Worlds of Dune - Dune Scholar

Tom Huddleston's The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert (2023) is a beautifully designed book that explores ...

Dune History Annotated Bibliography (1) (docx) - CliffsNotes

... Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune. ... Just as the infusion of Middle Eastern influences in "Dune" enhances its world-building, the use of ...

In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade | Arts and Culture

And, of course, writing in the 1950s and 1960s, the jihad of Frank Herbert's imagination was not the same as ours, but drew from the Sufi-led ...

Bonus: The Deep History of Dune : Throughline - NPR

"Dune" is a book that came out in 1965, written by Frank Herbert. And it - this is the basic story. Twenty-thousand years into the future, humans have ...

Dune: The Original Sci-Fi Epic. - FORTY-FOUR CLOVERS.

So I'll admit, before the announcement that Denis Villeneuve would direct a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 Sci-Fi Epic, Dune, I had no ...

Why Frank Herbert's Dune Has Proved So Hard to Adapt | TIME

The ways in which this multitude of influences and responses to events shapes the plot of the original Dune books, and the ways that the ...

Dune Book Review | Tales from Absurdia

George Lucas is reading Frank Herbert's Dune. Upon closing the final pages, Lucas happens upon a groundbreaking idea. Totally unique. A space ...