The sabres of paradise
by Lesley Blanch · first published 1960
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You should also read the book which inspired Frank Herbert, Lesley Blanch's _The Sabres of Paradise_: https://arnoldkhan.medium.com/how-the-sabre-of-paradise-insp...
on “Ask HN: Life Changing Books?” ↗I read Sabres of Paradise and it absolutely had a lot of parallels with Dune, and was a major source. Good book too
on “Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)” ↗Frank Herbert said him self in an interview that Dune was inspired from Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch and that book is the story of Imam Shamil of the north caucasus.
on “Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)” ↗The fabula of "Dune" was heavily inspired by the historical novel "The Sabres of Paradise" by Lesley Blanch about these events.
on “Circassian Genocide” ↗…original meaning (this _finally_ seems to be fixed and the 7 instances of pogrom and 8 instances of program are correct), which had a clear and distinctive rooting in history, c.f., Lesley Blanch's _The Sabres of Paradise_: https://bookblast.org/blog/the-sabres-of-paradise-the-book-t... EDIT: The formatting error in the Glossary entry "Sandsnork" is still there though.
on “Butlerian Jihad” ↗more likely in the russian empire, from lesley blanch's 'sabres of paradise'
on “"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages” ↗…power seemingly out of nowhere and established their own sprawling Empire. They're very heavily based off of the people who lived in the Caucasus. Herbert basically lifts phrasing used in the book The Sabres of Paradise to describe the Fremen word for word
on “Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans” ↗Conlangs are cool and all and I haven't seen the new movie yet, but the thing that sort of annoyed me about the first one is that the book is _heavily_ inspired by a non-fiction book called Sabres of Paradise, about an islamic uprising against the Russian Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil And the book is _full_ of arabic, persian and russian terminology, and Islamic cultural and religious…
on “"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages” ↗The book "The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus" is usually given as one of the books that influenced Frank Herbert.
on “"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages” ↗Mostly based on The Sabres of Paradise... Paul is based on Shamyl 3rd Imam of Dagestan from that book
on “Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)” ↗