Sadakat Kadri: Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law


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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 burnings and English Defence League protests, Kadri voices a liberal view of Islamic history and shows Muslims working against repression. This book explains up-to-the-minute brutalities. Epic. Interviews, anecdotes, personal reflection and analysis are set against a narrative that sweeps from seventh-century Mecca to the war in Afghanistan. Civilisations are evoked via the vivid lives of caliphs, mystics, and travellers. Legal changes are described through the feuds, courtroom dramas, conquests and cataclysms that have left their mark on modern Islamic law. First-hand. On the road for five months, Kadri travelled through Iran just before the June 2009 election protests, and took part in a human rights conference there with ayatollahs and academics. Eye-opening. This book goes beyond the explosive headline issues (criminal justice, women, jihad, religious freedom) to reveal the stranger ones: genie exorcisms; the legal consequences of premature ejaculation; online fatwa advice; the sharia approach to Facebook and Qur'anic mobile phone ringtones, etc. Bold. "Heaven on Earth" primarily targets religious extremism, but also cuts anti-Muslim panic down to size.

The riveting, hilarious novel from the author of the postapocalyptic classic Alas, BabyloN...A young newspaperman accidentally turns up the biggest story of his career: On a certain date in the not-too-distant future, there are no reservations in the maternity wards of any hospitals in New York. When the journalist s AP office checks other cities, he discovers that this alarming state of affairs is not just in the United States but in the entire world as well. A few months earlier, an accidental explosion in an atomic plant in Mississippi released an unknown form of radiation that turned Earth s men sterile with one notable exception.Mr. Homer Adam, who was at the bottom of a The Front download ebook lead mine in Colorado at the moment of the explosion, is the only man unaffected by the atomic rays. Naturally, he is in great demand, and sadly, it s up to the government to decide what to do with him.One of literature s first responses to the atomic bomb, Mr. Adam remains an artifact of classic science fiction an equally biting satire and ominous warning to society that will resonate as deeply with readers today as it did when it was first published in 1946."


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Author: Sadakat Kadri
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780099523277
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