ILMU KOLONIAL DAN ISLAMISASI ALAM MELAYU: ANALISIS KRITIKAL

Abstract

Malaysia as a colonized nation had faced several negative impact imposed by the British. It including in the epistemological aspect which disturb Islam as source of Malay-Muslim‟s self-esteem. The study analyse the British‟s colonial work on the issues of Islamizatioin of the peninsula of Malaya.The Malay Muslims were forced passively to accept the colonialization of the British power with positive outlook. In fact, we try to reconstruct a historical misconceptions expressed by colonial scholars. The study finds several false account proposed by colonial works on the Islamization of the Malay world, namely the role of Aceh in inoculating the acts of violence in Malay world and denial of positive role played by Islam in the Malay world.