Heaven on Earth

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 *Intellectually nimble and rigorously researched … admirably clear-eyed … Kadri is a precise and stylish writer, as good at explicating abstruse arguments as he is at conjuring vivid scenes … this brave and sane book could not be more timely * Scotsman *Truly penetrating and provocative * Observer *Learned, level-headed, engaging, Kadri’s [book] deserves praise on every front – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *Thoughtful * Independent on Sunday *[An] erudite and instructive book… Captivating * The Times *

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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