Sultanate System Flashcards
It is composed of groups of villages under the realm of a sultan and his retinue.
Sultanate
It performed functions of a legislative body.
Ruma Bichara
It is locally known as datu kali that headed the justice department.
Qadi
It means that it disperses political power away from the center.
Centrifugal Nature
Who led an army of firearm-equipped Muslims from Sumatra to Sulu in 1390.
Rajah baginda
What empire did the Muslim Malays overthrew in 1478 and established the Islamic government of Malacca?
Madjahapit Empire
Its process started first in Sulu Archipelago towards the end of 13th century.
Islamization of Moroland
Who introduced the Islam in Maguindanao areas in around 1450?
Sharif Awliya
A Johor and Arab descent that founded the Maguindanao Sultanate after marrying the daughter of royal family in the area.
Sharif Kabungsuwan
3 active traders
- Chinese
- Arabs
- Indians
6 Tribal Subjects of Sulu Sultanate
- Tausug
- Sama and Badjao
- Jama Mapun
- Yakan
- Molbog and Palawani
- Non-Moro tribes
It was established around the 2nd decade of 16th century and spanned from Zamboanga to Davao that influence extends to the Iranun and the Maranao territories.
Maguindanao Sultanate
13 tribal subjects of Maguindanao Sultanate
- Maguindanao
- Maranao
- Iranun
- Sangil
- Kalagan
- Subanen
- Teduray
- Ubo
- T’boli
- B’laan
- Mansaka
- Manobo
- Higaunon
It bridged two worlds and lay at a most strategic point for the maritime trade of the 19th century.
Sulu Archipelago
The capital of the Sulu Sultanate, the focal point of a broad system of trade, and center for the marketing of slaves.
Jolo
The dominant ethnic group in the Sulu archipelago and are the sole residents of Jolo islands.
Taosug
The people of the interior that lived in small dispersed settlements and cultivated cassava, maize, and a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables.
Tau Gimba
The people of the coast who were far more dependent on the sea for livelihood, took direct interest in the pearl and shell fisheries, inter-insular trade, and slave raiding.
Tau Higad
They are strand dwellers with close ties to the sea, possessed of highly developed boat-building techniques, sometimes practicing simple garden agriculture and are the most widely dispersed of all ethnolinguistic groups in the Sulu chain.
Samal
A group of islands named by the Spanish that was a springboard for launching seasonal raids against coastal villages from Luzon to Celebes.
Los Samales
The most important island in Los Samales, dwelling places and organizational center of the major slave-retailing group for the Sulu Sultanate in the first half of the 19th century.
Balangingi
It is the traditional home of the Maguindanao that is an inland dwelling agricultural people.
Cotabato
2 divisions of Cotabato
- Sa-ilud
- Sa-raya
The lower valley or flood plain and the seat of the Sultanate of Cotabato.
Sa-ilud
The upper valley or highland area and the residence of the Sultanate of Buayan.
Sa-raya
It refers not only to the interior of a large land mass such as Mindanao or Borneo but also includes island clusters within the Sulu archipelago that depended on the port Sultanate at Jolo.
Hinterland
It can be viewed in terms of a single “cultural ecosystem” in which the parts are bound together by alternating bonds of antipathy and symbiotic relations.
Ethnic Interrelations
It is defined as the entire social system, rather than a particular aspect of the social structure.
State
A pyramidal form that is composed of sub-units which are structurally and functionally equivalent at every level of the political system.
Segmentary State
It was a centralized political system whose territorial sovereignty was recognized most strongly at the center.
Sulu Sultanate
They formed the most significant group at the top of the estate system.
Aristocratic Datus
They are the Sultan’s kindred and those who claimed descent from the first Sultan, and others were recruited through appointments by the Sultan.
Royal Datus
They were simply people without ascribed status.
Commoners
The bottom of the Sulu hierarchy.
Banyaga
They are invested with an aura of sanctity and charisma, symbolically legitimized the social system.
Sultan
It was situated on the eastern periphery of the Islamic world.
Taosug Sultanate
The prime legitimizer of the Sultan’s authority.
Islam
They conducted the Sultanate’s religious administration and established the Sultan’s presence and the strength of Islam even in culturally distant rural communities on Jolo and neighboring islands.
Adat/Catechists
