There were periods in Islamic history when things like apostasy and blasphemy were made punishable. So you know it kind of depends - there's no argum…

- 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 wh…

- Sadakat Kadri

There have been lots and lots of fatwas against violence. But it is an interesting question. A Mufti is the person that issues the fatwa and you'll f…

- Sadakat Kadri

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 cou…

- 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 words, shouldn…

- Sadakat Kadri

The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it was another five centuries, ha…

- 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 1980s and I saw then not only th…

- Sadakat Kadri

If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that …

- 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 Fiqh is the man-made e…

- Sadakat Kadri