Early Contacts and Islam

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Tang Dynasty (618-907), Early Sung (960-1126), Late Sung (1127-1279), Yuan

(1280-1368), Ming Dynasty (1369-1640).


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The Arrival of Islam

The coming of the Islam to the Philippines wasa function of Philippine participation in theinternational trade which, during the ninth

century, extended from Morocco to China

atrade practically controlled y Muslimmerchants of diverse nationalities butprincipally Arabs (Majul, 1974)

876 A.D.anti-foreign policy in China and arebellion in the Celestial Empire


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10thCenturyChina allowed the Muslims

once again to China.

Traffic of new products primarily began in 9th

century - Malay peoples benefited from this

Borneo and its close distance to the

Philippines


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A reliable tarsila (genealogical accounts) of

Sulu narrates how certain Tuan Mashaika

arrived at Jolo island in the area of Maimbung

and married a daughter of the ruling family

Shaikh descendants of saintly people.

Sharifs or sayids

Existence of Muslims in Sulu because of

marriage to local population



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Makhdum Karim Tuan Sharif Awliya

Tubig-Indangan, Simunul

Sufis(with certain mystical inclinations andbelonging to brotherhoods)

Baguinda Sibutu Island

Contributed to the increasing conciusness ofIslam among the people of Jolo, especially

those in the area around Buansa



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Sharif-ul-Hashim - Buansa

He arrived at the time when the Muslims were

ready to accept political institutions required

by orthodoxy

Maulana guide and teacher

The Sultans of Sulu have all claimed descentfrom this shariff, called as the first Sultan.



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Muhammad Kabungsuwan (1475)

With his lieutenants, they develop a system of

multiple marriage alliances with various ruling

families which served as a means of extending

both political control and Islamization

Islamic dynasties: Maguindanao, Buayan and

Butig



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Unhistorical Data


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Unhistorical Data

Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Ibn Batuta (1304 - 1378)

-Arab traveller from Morocco

- Rihlah (book) includes descriptions of Byzantine

of Constatinople and the Black Death of

Baghdad (1348)

- Twalisi (somewhere in Southeast Asian waters)

- The Princess Urduja Storyillusory creation of

Ibn Batuta


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Unhistorical Data

The story of ten Malay Datu of Borneo led by Datu Puti

Datu Sumakwel formed a political confederation of barangays

(Madya-as) for protection and close family relations

Maragtas Codethe legal code written by Datu Sumakwel

known as the oldest written body of laws in the Philippines


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known as the second oldest legal code in the Philippines

believed that it was promulgated by Datu Bandara Kalantiaw of Aklan (third Muslim

ruler of Panay) in 1433.

discovered in one of the chapters of the Las antiguas leyendas de la isla de Negros.

(Ancient Legends of Negros Island) written by Fr. Jose Pavon, parish priest of

Mimamaylan in 18381839.

Jose E. Marcodiscovered the Pavon manuscripts and forwarded it to Dr.

Robertson, Director of the Philippine Library and Museum in 1914.

according to Marcos confession, he obtained the two manuscript volume fromsomeonewho had stolen them from Himamaylan convento during the Revolution

The manuscript recovered by Marco was translated into English language in 1917

and it was reprinted by the Philippine Studies Program of University of Chicago in

1957.


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But according to William Henry Scott......

Prehispanic

Source Materials

for the Study of

Philippine History

(1968)


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Maragtas Story/Code was a myth!

Maragtas is not a prehispanic document but a book

written by Pedro Monteclaro, local historian of Panay

The publisher (1907) noted that this Maragtas

should not be considered as facts, all of which are

accurate and true.

The publisher pointed out that many of the

authors data do not tally with what we hear from the

old men.


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Code of Kalantiaw was a Hoax!

1. There is no evidence that Fr. Pavon, the alleged author of the

manuscript, was ever in the Philippines in 1838, or parish priest

of the town in 1839, the dates of the manuscript. The

discoverer of the alleged manuscript, Jose E. Marco, was

involved in the sale of other fake historical documents. There isno historical evidence for the existence of Datu Kalantiaw, or a

code of his name other than the documents presented by Jose

Marco.

2. The contents of the manuscript are of dubious value. Forexample, the author prays for the preservation of the King of

Spain in 1838 and dedicates a book to him in 1839, but Spain

had no king between 1833 and 1874.


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Code of Kalantiaw was a Hoax!

3. The author also states that the month of November was called

a bad month for it brought bad air laden with purified microbes

of evil fervers. It was only in the 1850s that Louis Pasteur

discovered the theory of infections of germs. The word microbeitself was invented by Dr. Charles Emmanuel Sedillot. He

proposed the term for the first time in a lecture before the

academy of Sciences in 1878

4. The Kalantiaw Code contains many strange edicts thatcontradict the character of the Filipino. For example, the code

prescribed death penalty for the crime of tresspassing on the

datus house, but imposed only a years slavery for stealing his

wife.

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