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History. Arab traders have been visiting Philippines for nearly 2,000 years. Since the 14th century Arab travelers had traded extensively with local chiefs, datos and rajahs. During the advent of Islam into Southeast Asia, Makhdum Karim, the first Islamic missionary to reach the Sulu Archipelago, brought Islam to what is now the Philippines ...
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 ...
Sunni Islam [ 3 ] The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [ 4 ] As Muslim-majority ethnic groups, they form the largest non- Christian population in the Philippines, [ 5 ...
The Moro conflict [37] [38] [39] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [40] [29] A decades-long peace process [37] [41] has resulted in various peace deals have been signed between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [42] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [43] but ...
The Moro Rebellion (1902–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.The rebellion occurred after the conclusion of the conflict between the United States and First Philippine Republic, and saw the US move to impose its authority over the Muslim states in Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.
The Jabidah massacre on March 18, 1968, was the purported assassinations or executions of Moro army recruits who allegedly mutinied upon learning the true nature of their mission. [3] It is acknowledged as a major flashpoint that ignited the Moro insurgency in the Philippines. [4][5]
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 ...
Islamization. Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia with approximately 240 million adherents in the region (about 42% of its population), with majorities in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia as well parts of Southern Thailand and parts of Mindanao in the Philippines respectively. [3] Significant minorities are located in ...