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@ShaneClaiborne 2/ This is hardly an original or modern notion. Planetary prophetology always anticipated breaking with Abrahamic ethnocentrism, reprojecting prophetic radicalism on a universal, world-historical plane identified with a clear, planetary, political objective. (Qu’ran 2:136)

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 Dec 2021

@iyad_elbaghdadi 1/ Yes, a universal insight transcending borders, cultures, eras. And where our challenge is common and universal, so our prophets, from whichever cultures and times they have spoken, insist our salvation and liberation are ultimately planetary, too.

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Quoted by@NoemaMag @nils_gilman @claire_i_webb Well, to paraphrase Heschel, one factor ultimately determines the shape of history - the transcendent response to the nationalist shitshow threatening the entirety of life on Earth. As such, our salvation is necessarily universalist and planetary. As for back yard bombshells...Quoted by@tmwt_tweets end/ Different strokes for different folks, of course; and yet the Eliatic integrity of the Prophet’s (PBUH) visionary act is undeniably universal, coherent, ecumenical. You are so clearly an ally to Islam and have allies everywhere. Thank you so much for your superb journalism.