actually revelatory, many thoughts of prophecy and its burdens in esoteric shia islam, particularly in nizari ismailism(/bábism), from which the fremen borrow the term fidaykin (read: fida’i/fidayeen, most famously used for the assassins) i think at the most broad level what caused me to abandon the twelver shiism i was raised in in favor of the heretical extant strands of ismaili islam was the contemplation of messianic burden the novel rly started to turn in me, to wait for the manifested one is also to fester and i see that fester around me except as i & others have manifested individually, then i see chani in that fulfillment resisting the turn to repression and witnessing it as self-repression after the psuedo-liberation, woohoo,,,,,,,