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 could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a… — 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 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 1980s and I saw then not only the novel punishments that he was introducing - because they were novel, and this is again something that's very important to understand, it's only in the last thirty, forty… — 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 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 rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and… — 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 hope, for people who are interested, whatever their faith. Even if they don't have any faith. As a barrister I had certain advantages - I could think like a lawyer and I knew how all the… — 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 women, which are theoretically used against thieves although they're never carried out - an actual amputation or an actual stoning. The blasphemy laws, again, never actually carried out, though they're there, heavy with menace on the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share
