tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post7780381569992152395..comments2024-01-12T10:42:23.401-05:00Comments on The Legacy of Henry Corbin: Islamic themes in Frank Herbert's "Dune"Tom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-38414004456814530592015-11-07T21:10:30.517-05:002015-11-07T21:10:30.517-05:00Very insightful comments, thank you Very insightful comments, thank you Saleem Saabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013259661757236766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-35037191722499930852015-09-24T05:14:20.750-04:002015-09-24T05:14:20.750-04:00"Howie [Howard Hansen, part Quileute indian a..."Howie [Howard Hansen, part Quileute indian and a long-time friend of Herbert] and [Frank Herbert] spent a lot of times discussing religion, particularly the mysticism of many faiths and peoples. They drew parallels between Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, the Kabbala of Judaism, the Sufis of Islam, and American Indian beliefs." (Dreamer of Dune, the biography of Frank Herbert - Brian Herbert)<br /><br />Nothing indicates that Alan Watts - with whom Frank Herbert never took lsd, by the way - provided him something else than his knowledge about Zen, a doctrine Watts was specialized with and which is everywhere to be found in the Dune serie...Daphnéehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378376382556296556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-14848922359058973322012-01-09T10:54:37.016-05:002012-01-09T10:54:37.016-05:00to anonnymous... the very "natural" lang...to anonnymous... the very "natural" language and dialogue in the first three dune buks, makes clear that it was something more subtle than lsd. or maybe lsd made many things clearer to frank herbert - like spice trance.sameerhttp://mathaba.net/news/libyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-85054505107845108512009-12-25T08:43:10.001-05:002009-12-25T08:43:10.001-05:00It is a fact that Watts was a Corbin scholar. It ...It is a fact that Watts was a Corbin scholar. It is also well documented that Watts and Herbert spent a lot of time together discussing religion while they were tripping on the LSD Watts provided. If you haven't read Corbin, as you admit, then you haven't got much ground to be opining on the matter. It is the LSD theme (spice) in Dune PLUS the Corbin themes, ideas and vocabulary that make this case. "Dune" has Alan Watts all over it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-90347122388109823992009-04-12T13:13:00.000-04:002009-04-12T13:13:00.000-04:00Thanks for this most excellent comment. TCThanks for this most excellent comment. TCTom Cheethamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-7885513461148360082009-04-12T00:01:00.000-04:002009-04-12T00:01:00.000-04:00James Morris, in the introduction to his book, Mas...James Morris, in the introduction to his book, Master and Disciple, indicates that Herbert must have read Ibn Khaldun's book "The Muqaddimah" or "The Prolegomenon" because a lot of the concepts in Dune can be found in Ibn Khaldun. <BR/><BR/>I looked the book up on Amazon. It appears to be quite famous. Toynbee said it was one of the most important books in history. It is entirely possible that Herbert read the book. Herbert's knowledge of Islam and Arabic is too sophisticated for him to have got it from a conversation. <BR/><BR/>I think Henry Corbin, who I haven't read, but not for lack of trying, is a bit too specialized to have inspired Dune.Karim Keshavjeehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/karimkeshavjeenoreply@blogger.com