Orientalist Studies Verge on Islam: Early History

The majority of orientalist adhere to logical empirical of positivism; an understanding that accentuate enforcement of reason thoroughly as approach to acquire a meticulous fact based on rigorous and systematic research methods. The philosophy, certainly oppose facts that prevail from revelation sources indeed considered irrelevant to historical accounts, subsequently create bias and imprecise interpretation of Malay in Malaya. This article further analysis orientalist attitude on Malay and Islam, and also its influences to the former community. The author employs historiography (historical timeline) and comparative methods in order to analyze orientalists’ understandings. The author, hereinafter perform neutral principle, so to produce a just study. The findings suggest that orientalist judgment show ambiguous point of views towards Islam and its believers, especially the Malay community; where every writing of the group imposed prejudicial assessments, thus deviating from the development of Islamic historical civilization. This is basically due to orientalists’ weakness in understanding Islam, especially Malay community; also, a result of a European-centric thinking i.e. euro-centrism. 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 nation that ought to be civilized.