The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all of the laws of the country take precedence, but what I'm also saying is that within the context… — 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
