Chapter 3-Islam and Islamization in the Phillippines Flashcards
The islamization of the Southern Philippines occurred along with the Islamization of ________, ________, and ________.
Borneo Sulawesi, Celebes, and the Moluccas
had begun trading in the Philippines long before the Filipinos started to embrace Islam.
Muslim Arab traders
Commented “Since Borneo is close to the Philippines it can be presumed that Muslim traders had begun to know Sulu at least by that time, it not earlier. In any case, there is evidence that Arabs had reached China from some Islands in the Philippines during the tenth century.”
Dean Majul
the predominant groups in Sulu, that are said to carry themselves a little straighter than other Moro groups because they were the first to be won to Islam.
The Tausug
geneology
Tarsila
-came to Joio long ago
-married the daughter of a local chieftain and begot Muslims
Tuan Masha’ika
begot Muslims
meaning that he raised his children as Muslims.
One tarsila mentioned that Tuan Masha’ika came when people of Jolo were still
worshipping stones and other inanimate objects.
the process of Islam taking root among the people outlive to Sulu, may well have begun with Tuan Masha’ika raising the Muslim children by his Jolo wife.
Islamization
-were not written as scientific histories of the archipelago’s chief families, so as documents of their time and place, they contain elements which are patently mythological and baffling for the present-day reader.
The tarsila of Sulu
was also called Tuan Sharief Awliya, a title given to holy men.
Karim ul Makhdum
Arabic for master or father - a common designation for sufi missionaries.
Makhdum
Makhdum arrived in Sulu in the
second half of the fourteenth century
reinforcing an Islam already present among foreign Muslims and their families and using their settlement as a base, winning new adherents from among the surrounding local and older population (Majul).
The Makhdum’s work
