Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law (Record no. 225972)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781847920171
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Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 340.59
Item number KADH
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Personal name Sadakat Kadri
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9 (RLIN) 67095
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The Bodley Head
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx,332 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 23.5x15 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Almost 1400 years after the prophet muhammad first articulated gods law - the sharia - its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it means hardliners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war and stonings others say that it is humanitys 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 jinns are exorcised in the name of the sharia in pakistans 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 subsidise 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 many of islams first judges refused even to decide cases for fear that a mistake would damn them, and scholars from delhi to cairo maintain that governments have no business enforcing faith in this illuminating and important book, sadakat kadri draws on islams past and present to show us why the promise of a perfect social order can be compelling but reality will always intrude and when human beings attempt to apply divine justice, they risk creating not a heaven on earth - but something much closer to hell
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Islamic law--History
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Religion
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Islam
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Law
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Personal name KADRI (Sadakat)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Others St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 11/29/2014   340.59 KADH D05344 12/20/2022 12/20/2022 Donated Books Donated by V. T. Rajshekar