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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