About the Author
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 show more Memorial Prize for travel writing. He lives in London. show less
Works by Sadakat Kadri
Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim… (2012) 121 copies, 4 reviews
Prague: Cadogan City Guides 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- KADRI, Sadakat
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Occupations
- barrister
- Short biography
- 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.
http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barris...
Members
Reviews
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Members
- 251
- Popularity
- #91,086
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 22
- Languages
- 1
- Favorited
- 1
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.… (more)