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Islam in the Philippines is the second largest religion in the country, [1] and the faith was the first-recorded monotheistic religion in the Philippines. Historically, Islam reached the Philippine archipelago in the 14th century, [2] [3] through contact with Muslim Malay and Arab merchants along Southeast Asian trade networks, [4] in addition ...
This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of the Philippines .
After the arrival of Rajah Baguinda Ali from Basilan to Mindanao, Maguindanao, Lanao, and Buayan all converted to Islam. [ 10 ] Eventually, mainland Mindanao began to split between two sovereign entities, the Sa-raya (Upper Valley) headed by the interior sultanate of Buayan, and the Sa-ilud (Lower Valley) maritime sultanate of Maguindanao.
However, by 1380 Makhdum Karim had already brought Islam to the Philippine archipelago, establishing the Sheik Karimal Makdum Mosque in Simunul, Tawi-Tawi, the oldest mosque in the country. [ citation needed ] By the 15th century, Islam was established in the Sulu Archipelago and spread from there. [ 35 ]
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The Sultanate of Sulu (Tausug: Kasultanan sin Sūg; Malay: Kesultanan Suluk; Filipino: Kasultanan ng Sulu) was a Sunni Muslim state [note 1] that ruled the Sulu Archipelago, coastal areas of Zamboanga City and certain portions of Palawan in the today's Philippines, alongside parts of present-day Sabah and North Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Filipino: Rehiyong Awtonomo ng Muslim Mindanao; Arabic: الحكم الذاتي الاقليمي لمسلمي مندناو Al-ḥukm adh-dhātī al-'iqlīmī li-muslimī Mindanāu; [3] [4] ARMM) was an autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines, that consisted of five predominantly Muslim provinces ...
Cesar Adib Majul (October 21, 1923 - October 11, 2003) was a Philippine historian [1] best known for his work on the history of Islam in the Philippines, and on the life of Apolinario Mabini. [ 2 ] Majul was born in Aparri , Cagayan , Philippine Islands , to an Ibanag mother and a Syrian Orthodox Christian father.