IMAGES OF POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE DUNE NOVELS: IMAGINATION AND INVENTION OF JIHAD AS A POLITICAL PROTEST

Background. The author analyzes the texts of Dune cycle in contexts contemporary historiography, which proposed universal methods that allow analyzing “oriental” images literature through prism constructing and deconstructing narratives form image Islam.
 Purpose. purpose article is an “orientalist” reinterpretation Islamic novels belonging to cycle, including original prequels presented by Dune, Messiah, Dune. Butlerian Jihad Paul.
 Materials methods. uses methodological tools offered intellectual history studies nationalism, concept invention traditions, allows us analyze Islam science fiction as one invented traditions American mass using sources corpus. Orientalism a method used Muslim motifs prose F. Herbert, B. Herbert K. Anderson, which, believes, were inspired political, ideological religious stimuli. believes orientalist approach effective interpretative model for interdisciplinary analysis space development images.
 Results. It shown actualize promote unique discourse political message. features forms protest under slogans are analyzed. studied how mobilization potential perceived legitimization social economic protest. An expanded understanding jihad both war class conflict 1) actualization was result activation East, 2) authors actualized anti-authoritarian emancipatory Islam.