I can see how they got away with not saying any Arabic terms in the last movie, but come on, are they really gonna ret-con the whole vocabulary of the setting to avoid upsetting some cracker groypers?
I can see how they got away with not saying any Arabic terms in the last movie, but come on, are they really gonna ret-con the whole vocabulary of the setting to avoid upsetting some cracker groypers?
Definitely. Herbert genuinely engages with west asian culture, and it’s not a surprise. His source material were his own muslim friends’ historical experience, and his readings of Islamic philosophy.