Heaven on Earth : A Journey Through Shariʻa Law
by Sadakat Kadri
Published by : Vintage (London) Physical details: xx,332 Pages 13x20 cm | PB ISBN:9780099523277. Year: 2013| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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A Journey Through Shariʻa Law.
Include Notes, Bibliography and Index.
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 stoning. Others say that it is humanity's only guarantee of a just society. In "Heaven on Earth", Sadakat Kadri, a London-based criminal barrister and prize-winning writer, sets out to see who is right. Travelling the Islamic world, he encounters a cacophony of legal claims. At the ancient Indian grave of his Sufi ancestor, unruly jinn are exorcised in the name of the sharia. In Pakistan's madrasas, stern scholars ridicule his talk of human rights and demand explanations for NATO drone attacks in Afghanistan. In Iran, he hears that God is forgiving enough to subsidies sex-change operations - but requires the execution of Muslims who change religion. All Muslims are guided by the sharia - whatever their interpretation of it - and the stories of compulsion and violence are just part of a much bigger picture.
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