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The Baheyeldin Dynasty
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The Baheyeldin Dynasty is a personal blog at baheyeldin.com about culture and writing. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Essays on literature and history, cited in HN threads for an overview of Arabic and Islamic themes in Dune and a post on the Dutch in Algeria in the 1830s. The comments only link or cite them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-02
What Hacker News says?
not really, pretty old overview on it - but kept up to date it seems (current references to interviews) https://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-... its true that the concept of a _holy war_ isnt unique to the muslim faith though. I never claimed that either however. It's slightly surprising to me how few people seem to be aware of that in HN. Was expecting the general readership here to be a litt…
Comment linking /literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html
on “Hosting a website on a disposable vape”Submitted Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017) as a story · 137 points
HN discussionmuch more to this story. herbert was hired to write an article about how oregon was using grasses to stabilize their dunes, and the article, 'they stopped the moving sands', was never published, but inspired the novel to come https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-dune18-2010apr18... see also this article about arabic words & islamic themes in the book https://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes…
Comment linking /literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html
on “The Secret History of Dune”Note: algeria 1830s https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-th... Thanks for application of irony to a thread about iron laws! Led me to the “unnamed” Ping-Pong Lemma, a great counterexample! Vespasian was, apparently, more inconsistent: https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 (Im guessing he was as aware as MAA of the burdens of office) Hopefully we can return to the formalization of Nietzsche/Greco-Ro…
Comment linking /writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-names.html
on “The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010)”