This book critically examines authoritative colonial works on adat laws in the Malay Peninsula and some continuities revealing unstated assumptions, ideological influences and distortions and methodological limitations in scholarship on the subject.
Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman, Ph.D. (2000) in Malay Studies, National University of Singapore is Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Malay Studies, NUS. Her recent publications include "Traditionalism and its Impact on the Administration of Justice: the Case of the Syariah Court of Singapore" in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol 5, Number 3, 2004).
