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Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law by Sadakat Kadri
Category: Fiction
This book is important because it is: Unique. "Heaven on Earth" offers a critique of extremism that is human rights-based and entertaining - combining the comparative approach of Karen Armstrong and the immediacy of Ed Husain ("The Islamist") with storytelling. Timely. At a time of veil bans, Qur'an bur ...Show more
Heaven on Earth : A Journey Through Shari'a Law by Sadakat Kadri
Category: Spirituality
Almost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God’s law – the sharia – its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it means. Hardliners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war and stonings. Others say that it is humanity’s only guarantee of a just society. In Heaven on Ea ...Show more
Heaven on Earth - A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World by Sadakat Kadri
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Ever since 9/11, fears about the shari'a--Islamic law--have been spreading. A word that originally conveyed nothing more sinister than a direct path to water has become associated not with salvation but with brutality and compulsion. And as the legal historian and human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri reali ...Show more
The Trial : A History from Socrates to O J Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
Category: History
In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning new writer. "The Trial" spans a vast distan ...Show more
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