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Sadakat Kadri is a practicing English barrister and qualified New York attorney, and the author of The Trial. He has a master's degree from Harvard Law School and has contributed to The Guardian, The Times (London), and the London Review of Books, and he is the winner of the 1998 Shiva Naipaul afficher plus Memorial Prize for travel writing. He lives in London. afficher moins

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KADRI, Sadakat
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Sadakat Kadri spent a decade as a full-time practitioner at Doughty Street, specialising in criminal, constitutional and international law. He has considerable experience as a Crown Court advocate and has represented appellants at all levels of the UK judicial system, including several death row prisoners before the Privy Council. On the international plane, he has advised governments and citizens on matters ranging from internet regulation to the constitutionality of a coup d'état, and he has participated in appeals in Brunei, Malawi and Fiji. He is also familiar with US legal systems, having studied at Harvard and qualified for the New York Bar, and he has.worked at the American Civil Liberties Union and acted for a number of US clients.
 
Sadakat became an associate tenant in order to concentrate on his writing. He regularly contributes to various publications including the London Review of Books, and he is the author of two law-related works: The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson (HarperCollins UK and Random House US) and Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law (Random House UK and Farrar Straus & Giroux US). He has spoken about both books at academic institutions and literary festivals in many parts of the world.
 
Sadakat combines his legal and literary interests in work he does for international human rights organisations. He has observed court proceedings in the Middle East on behalf of the Geneva-based International Parliamentary Union, and he went to Syria in March 2011 as part of a delegation of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The report that he helped write, which formed the basis for Syria's suspension from the International Bar Association in the summer of 2012, is viewable through this link. In August 2012, he travelled to Myanmar (Burma) as the rapporteur on IBAHRI's first ever mission to that country. The report he compiled, officially launched at the Law Society in January 2013, can be found online here.

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Not really what the subtitle promised. Kadri writes very well, and seems to have a good command over the subject matter, but it really only skims the surface of actual legal matters. On the other hand, if you know very little about Islam in general, this would be an ideal one stop shop: there's plenty of stuff on the early history, some slightly convoluted/compressed bits, some very well done. I can know name the four traditional schools, at least (Hanafite, Malikite, Shafi'ite, Hanbalite) and have some idea of what they were all up to; I also know just how separate the Shiite tradition is from these Sunni schools. On the other hand, I have no idea whether the differences between those schools have any impact on contemporary Islamic thought or practice, because once Kadri makes the jump from chronological exposition to thematic discussion, he stops bothering to discuss them. The final sections are interesting, but again, I wished for a bit more depth.

In short, Kadri faced a real problem: do you just discuss the intellectual matters at hand, and leave yourself open to the problem of ignoring the actual circumstances the ideas were designed to solve? Or do you lay out the social and cultural causes while not really getting to grips with the ideas? He chose the latter, probably for the better in intellectual terms (i.e., he doesn't act as if only ideas exist) but for the worse as far as the book itself goes (because he wanted to write something inviting and short).

But it was well wroth reading, if only for the evidence he produces for his own argument: that 'fundamentalist' Muslims, from the Wahhabis to the present, lack the humility, intelligence and humanity of the men they claim to be emulating.
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stillatim | 3 autres critiques | Dec 29, 2013 |
The key to this book is the word History. One cannot deny the importance of history to anything but the most revolutionary of processes and one of the anomalies as I see it of Islam is that the more revolutionary the tone, the more important the history in understanding it. In terms of the history, I am intrigued by the gap between, say, 600 and 200 years ago that this account leaves. Nevertheless, a worthwhile read and a good reminder that the concept of what is Sharia is far from well tied down.… (plus d'informations)
 
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edrandrew | 3 autres critiques | May 26, 2012 |
 
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hadden | 3 autres critiques | May 20, 2012 |
The book doesn't aim to be a detailed, scholarly exploration of shari'a-- but ably achieves its goal of delivering a general understanding of the history of the concept and its multiple roles, places, and interpretations.
 
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KatrinkaV | 3 autres critiques | May 12, 2012 |

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