Heaven on Earth by Sadakat Kadri
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.
Brilliant and illuminating -- Boris Johnson * Mail on Sunday *
Greatly enriches our understanding of a much misunderstood subject * Sunday Times *
Erudite and instructive * The Times *
First-rate * Guardian *
[A] lively, yet scholarly, book.. Kadri is an ideally positioned guide * Daily Telegraph *
Greatly enriches our understanding of a much misunderstood subject * Sunday Times *
Erudite and instructive * The Times *
First-rate * Guardian *
[A] lively, yet scholarly, book.. Kadri is an ideally positioned guide * Daily Telegraph *
Half-Finnish and half-Pakistani, Sadakat Kadri was born in London in 1964. He graduated with a first in history and law from Trinity College, Cambridge, and after taking a master's degree at Harvard Law School qualified as a barrister and New York attorney. He has been attached to London's Doughty Street Chambers since the mid-1990s, and has worked on human rights issues in several overseas jurisdictions, including Turkey and parts of the Middle East. His last book was The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson, he is a past winner of the Spectator/Shiva Naipaul travel writing prize, and before setting off to research the sharia, he wrote a regular column on legal questions for the New Statesman.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099523277 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099523272 |
| Title | Heaven on Earth |
| Author | Sadakat Kadri |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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