Analysing Stages of the Western Orientalists’ Approach towards Islam

Rahman, Mohd Farhan Abd; Razak, Muhd Imran Abd; Noor, Ahmad Firdaus Mohd; Basir, Mukhamad Khafiz Abdul; Khalid, Nurul Khairiah; Kadir, Nor Adina Abdul

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v9-i9/6385

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“…British's effort of training the Malay community was to make them as successors after the independence of Malaya. As a result, the policies of Biritish colonialism would continue to develop in governing this country (Rahman et al, 2019).…”

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The Influence of Islamic Religious Education and British Administrator's Views on The Education System in Malaya

Rahman¹,

Razak²,

Noor³

et al. 2022

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The majority of British administrators adhere to the philosophy of logical positivism (later known as logical empiricism), referred as an understanding that emphasized on the use of the intellect as the main approach to obtain accurate scientific facts based on meticulous and systematic research methods. This philosophy rejects the proof of a fact from the source of revelation as it is considered not relevant in proving the history and has created a bigoted and queried views towards the Malay community in Malaya. This article focuses on the analysis of the British administrators' views on the system of education in Malaya, which include religious and secular education, and to determine the influence of Islamic religious education on the community. The methods used were historiography, comparative method and content analysis. The study found that the British administrators had underestimated the contribution of Islamic education system in Malaya and considerered the failure of Malaya in achieving its high civilization was due to the adherence to Islam which was considered as irrelevant and outdated. Hence, to improve these weaknesses, Western education system was seen as an appropriate step to internalise secularism into the thinking of the Malays in Malaya.

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The Influence of Islamic Religious Education and British Administrator's Views on The Education System in Malaya

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Razak²,

Noor³

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“…Ia bertujuan untuk membuktikan kesilapan kandungan al-Quran dan al-Sunnah bagi memperlihatkan Islam sebagai agama yang sesat. Elemen pemikiran sekularisme yang terkandung di dalam pendekatan ini jelas sekali menetapkan bahawa sebarang peristiwa sejarah yang berlaku dalam masyarakat Islam perlu dinilai secara skeptikal demi mendapatkan sesuatu fakta (Rahman et al, 2019).…”

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“…Tujuan pihak penjajah melatih masyarakat Melayu adalah untuk menjadikan mereka sebagai pewaris apabila Tanah Melayu diberikan kemerdekaan. Hasilnya, pewarisan dasar pentadbiran kolonialisme Biritish akan diteruskan di dalam pemerintahan negara ini (Rahman et al, 2019).…”

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Keistimewaan pendidikan agama Islam dan pandangan pentadbir British terhadap sistem pendidikan di Tanah Melayu

Rahman

Razak

Noor

et al. 2021

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Majoriti pentadbir British berpegang dengan falsafah positivisme empirik logik iaitu fahaman yang mementingkan penggunaan akal sepenuhnya sebagai pendekatan utama bagi mendapatkan sesuatu fakta keilmuan dengan tepat berdasarkan kaedah penelitian yang teliti dan sistematik. Falsafah ini menolak pembuktian sesuatu fakta menggunakan sumber wahyu kerana dianggap tidak releven dalam pembuktian sejarah dan telah mewujudkan pandangan yang berat sebelah serta meragukan terhadap masyarakat Melayu di Tanah Melayu. Artikel ini menumpukan kepada analisa terhadap pandangan pentadbir British berkenaan sistem pendidikan di Tanah Melayu merangkumi pendidikan agama dan sekular, dan untuk mengetahui keistimewaan pendidikan agama Islam ke atas masyarakat Melayu. Penulis menggunakan kaedah pensejarahan, perbandingan dan analisis kandungan bagi menyiapkan kajian ini. Hasil kajian mendapati pentadbir British memperkecilkan sumbangan sistem pendidikan agama Islam di Tanah Melayu dan beranggapan kegagalan Tanah Melayu mencapai ketamadunan yang tinggi disebabkan berpegang kepada Islam yang dianggap tidak releven dengan perkembangan semasa. Justeru, bagi memperbaiki kelemahan tersebut perlaksanaan sistem pendidikan Barat dilihat sebagai langkah yang tepat bagi menerapkan fahaman sekularisme ke dalam pemikiran masyarakat Melayu di Tanah Melayu.

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R.O. Winstedt’ Notion on Islamic Criminal Laws in Malaya: An Analysis

Rahman¹,

Razak²,

Noor³

et al. 2020

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R.O. Winstedt is an orientalist serving in Malaya as a British administrator. His form of thinking is founded by logical empirical of positivism; a philosophy utilizes ne plus ultra of reason as the primary degree to obtain exact truths based on systematic and thorough research methods. The philosophy declines to prove a fact acquired by revelation because it is considered irrelevant in historical verification. is focused on the analysis of Winstedt's notion of Islamic Criminal laws in Malaya indeed the orientalist approach in evaluating Islam and Malay and how far the acceptance of Islamic criminal law in the legal tradition of the Malay community. The writers apply historiography, comparing and content analyzing methodologies in this study. The findings suggest that orientalist thinking approaches, particularly Winstedt, have shown a debatable point of view and biased judgment in evaluating Islam i.e. the legal system. Winstedt believes Islamic laws and customary should not be mutually enforced because of the former is intolerable practices in Malaya on cultural and residential dichotomy. The notion is due to orientalists' shortcomings in understanding Islamic teaching in fact as a result of European-centric thinking. The thought assembles Europe as a great and civilized nation compared to other races, so-called the ambassador of civilization who are the savior of the nation that ought to be civilized.

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Analysing Stages of the Western Orientalists’ Approach towards Islam

Cited by 4 publications

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The Influence of Islamic Religious Education and British Administrator's Views on The Education System in Malaya

The Influence of Islamic Religious Education and British Administrator's Views on The Education System in Malaya

Keistimewaan pendidikan agama Islam dan pandangan pentadbir British terhadap sistem pendidikan di Tanah Melayu

R.O. Winstedt’ Notion on Islamic Criminal Laws in Malaya: An Analysis

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