Apostasy and freedom of belief

Number of pages: 464 pages

In it, he extensively discussed the concepts of "apostasy" and the rulings resulting from it, which have sparked wide debate in the modern era, as they seemed to conflict with the freedom of a person to express his opinion on the belief he deems appropriate for him. "Apostasy" was not a problematic concept in the Islamic world, but today it has become a point of conflict between the old and the new, the particular and the universal, the Muslim self and the Western other... and also on the jurisprudential level, through which Kadiwar deals with a critical analytical jurisprudential vision of apostasy, and the opinions of jurists of different schools of thought on it, placing their most important differences on the critical dissection, and discussing their evidence one by one, in terms of its proof and implications, with comprehensiveness and detail, and when he argues with opponents, he uses the method of fundamentalist argumentation with all its techniques, so his book came out full of intellectual richness, and comprehensive exploration of the aspects of the issue under study, so that presenting it to the Arab reader became a source of pride and honor. The book aims to discuss questions that fall under the title of “apostasy and blasphemy,” such as: the state of religious freedom in contemporary Islam and the positions of conservative and reformist Muslims on apostasy, blasphemy, and heresy.