Familiar Quote by Sadakat Kadri

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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