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Once in Cairo he married his lawyer’s daughter in 1934 and also joined the #Hamdiyya #Shadhiliyya founded by Shaykh Salama al-Radi (1867-1939) - in this period he also first met #Schuon in 11/ Image
By the end of the 1940s he had broken with #Schuon and no longer referred #Muslim #traditionalist adepts to him instead referring them to #Valsan - he disapproved of the ‘shallow’ #universalism and forgoing of #Muslim ritual of #Schuon instead of his own #traditionalism 12/
Dying in 1951, his funeral included close associates later disciples of #Schuon such as Martin Lings (1909-2005) a professor of literature at #CairoUniversity and Whitall Perry (1920-2005) before being buried in the tomb complex of his father in law 13/ ImageImage
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"Augustine of Hippo … refered to such persons [universalists] as misericordes, 'the merciful-hearted'" — David Bentley Hart #ThatAllShallBeSaved
According to #DBH, Basil of Caesarea reports that the majority of Christians were universalists and believed hell was a purgatory (pace 1 Cor 3) and not eternal. And #universalism was common place in the first half of the first christian millenium. #ThatAllShallBeSaved
#DBH says the arguments against #universalism are predictable and sophomoric. He says the clear language of scripture does not in fact oppose universalism, nor was it condemned as heretical by the 5th ecumenical council.
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"Societies work best, and have always worked best, where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively with them for common goals, and thus share a civic culture." mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…
"Asians have a particularistic outlook, not a universalistic one." #Particularism
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luther finished 30th out of 57 on his bachelor's final exam. harpercollins.com/9780060517601/…
second out of seventeen when he finished his master's program.
"Erasmus had left an Augustinian monastery to see the world; Luther [forsook] the world to enter an Augustinian monastery."

Massing, Michael. Fatal Discord (p. 84). Harper. Kindle Edition.
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