Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's flexible enough to allow for sex changes, and it encourages sex changes. But… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
There's crucial distinction that has to be drawn between the Shari'a, which is this hugely expansive vision of cosmic order that I've been describing,… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh, and the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
I work in the human rights field and there are serious conflicts between certain interpretations of Islamic law and human rights. That's something which… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during the late… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
I think it's important to understand Shari'a to be rooted in history - what we know about the history and what we don't know… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
I didn't quite know whether I was writing for the non-Muslim or the Muslim, and at the end of the day I'm writing, I… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
In 1979, you had the revolution in Iran. You had the Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan, which are the laws that are notoriously used against… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the Islamic Republic… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
