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… — Sadakat Kadri Arguing 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… — Sadakat Kadri I realized Copy Share Image
The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh,… — Sadakat Kadri Belief 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.… — Sadakat Kadri Battle 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… — Sadakat Kadri Bones 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… — Sadakat Kadri Big problem 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… — Sadakat Kadri Forty 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… — Sadakat Kadri Country 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… — Sadakat Kadri Arguing 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… — Sadakat Kadri Critique 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… — Sadakat Kadri Book 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… — Sadakat Kadri Blasphemy 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… — Sadakat Kadri Book 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… — Sadakat Kadri Abuse 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… — Sadakat Kadri 1960s Copy Share Image
There is an issue about the discrimination provisions because the Qur'an does say that women should have half the share of men.… — Sadakat Kadri Discrimination Copy Share Image
I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what… — Sadakat Kadri Book Copy Share Image
What we shouldn't do is victimize and target Muslim communities specifically. But as things stand, there's one tribunal which has drawn a… — Sadakat Kadri Community Copy Share Image
If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance… — Sadakat Kadri Believe 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… — Sadakat Kadri 1960s Copy Share Image
My background is such that I am uneasy about religious laws, I think there's always a real danger when you start appealing… — Sadakat Kadri Authority Copy Share Image
The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it… — Sadakat Kadri Argument Copy Share Image
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be… — Sadakat Kadri Familiar Copy Share Image
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, if you look at its website, it basically deals with commercial disputes, it's not allowed to deal with… — Sadakat Kadri Children Copy Share Image
There were periods in Islamic history when things like apostasy and blasphemy were made punishable. So you know it kind of depends… — Sadakat Kadri Argument Copy Share Image
