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 argument, quite apart from the question of the divine or otherwise nature of the Qur'an, that huge swathes of Islamic law are man-made. Clerics here - in maintaining their power, will often try to elide that and say "Well no, actually this isn't man-made at all. Stoning is part of the divine revelation." It isn't in the Qur'an but the way this has been done over the years is to take the Hadith.
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that …
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
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…
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