Colonial legal education inculcated colonized lawyers with contempt for their own legal tradition

Evidence

With this new system in place, the new generation of “native” lawyers was equally subjected to the inculcation of a procolonialist reading of reality, in which the “progressive” European law was pitted against a “backward” Shariʿa. (Even as late as the 1990s, many judges and lawyers from North Africa and the Middle East could be heard speaking, when the Shariʿa was discussed, ad nauseam and in a most pejorative manner of its “arcane,” “disorganized,” and “primitive” nature.) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 246

Categorization

• SEED: The internalization of colonial contempt persisting into the 1990s — educated native elites disparaging their own legal heritage — is a rich angle on epistemic colonization.