My background is such that I am uneasy about religious laws, I think there's always a real danger when you start appealing to a higher authority. It's self-righteousness, it's not righteousness, it's self-righteousness that takes control. But I think that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
