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The Sultanate of Sulu (Tausug: Kasultanan sin Sūg; Malay: Kesultanan Sulu; Filipino: Sultanato ng Sulu) was a Sunni Muslim state 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, North and East Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.
- History
- Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
- Case For The Sulu Sultanate
- References
Establishment
The Tausug first appeared in the Sulu islands in the eleventh century. Sulu is mentioned in Chinese sources as early as the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), and the Ming Annals contain an account of a tributary mission from Sulu. Genealogical sources place the founding of the Sulu Sultanate in the mid-fifteenth century. During the 1450s, Shari'ful Hashem Syed Abu Bakr, an Arabborn in Johore, arrived in Sulu from Malacca. In 1457, he married into the royal family of Sulu and founded the Sultanate of...
Expansion and decline
By 1768, Sulu had become the center of trade network extending from Mindanao and southern Palawan to the northern coast of Borneo, and southward into the Celebes Sea. Jolo emerged as a center for slave trading throughout Southeast Asia. Ships were outfitted in Sulu’s harbors with munitions, and slaves were traded there for cloth and firearms. Based on slave raiders, the economy of Sulu expanded, and its export trade increased. Between 1768 and 1848, foreign trade increased, with Sulu harvesti...
Today, Sulu, together with Lanao del Sur and Maguindao, comprises the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). In the 1970s, a Muslim secessionist movement, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), emerged and began engaging government troops in violent clashes. In 1976, the Tripoli Agreement, brokered by Colonel Muamar el-Qaddafi of Libya, b...
Currently, the issue of who would be the legitimate Sultan of Sulu is disputed by several branches of the Royal Family, although the line of succession fell on the Kiram branch of the royal family from 1823 until the death in 1936, of the last sovereign sultan, Sultan Jamalul Kiram II who died leaving no direct male heir. More than a dozen men clai...
Abdurahman, Habib Jamasali Sharief Rajah Bassal. 2002. The Sultanate of Sulu their dominion.Zamboanga City: Astoria Print. & Pub. Co. ISBN 971926702Bascar, Clemencio Montecillo. 2003. Sultanate of Sulu the Unconquered Kingdom: A Razor-Sharp and Bold Inquiry into the Dark Side of History. Zamboanga City, Philippines: Published and distributed b...Haynes, Thomas H. 1927. The Philippine Islands and Sulu Sultanate.London: Printed by Baines & Scarsbrook.Kaeuper, David H. 1968. The Disintegration of the Sulu Sultanate.Feb 24, 2023 · 15th Century - Islamic sultanate of Brunei nominally in control of Borneo, including Sabah and Sarawak, now part of Malaysia, and some parts of the Sulu islands in the Philippines.
Dec 19, 2020 · The Philippines’ claim that Sabah was derived from the Sulu sultanate traces its history back 1704. It is said the sultanate acquired Sabah as a reward for helping the sultan of Brunei quell a rebellion. The rebellion in question may refer to the Brunei civil war, or the “Perang Chermin”, which lasted for 13 years (1660-1673) among Brunei ...
The Malay Sultanate of Sambas in present-day West Kalimantan and Sultanate of Sulu in Southern Philippines in particular, and even the Muslim Rajahs of pre-colonial Manila had developed dynastic relations with the royal house of Brunei. The Sultanate of Sarawak (covering present-day Kuching, known to the Portuguese cartographers as Cerava, and ...
Brunei - Sultanate, Oil, Islam: Although its early history is obscure, Brunei was known to be trading with and paying tribute to China in the 6th century ce. It then came under Hindu influence for a time through allegiance to the Majapahit empire, based in Java. When the ships of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan anchored off Brunei in 1521, the fifth sultan, the great Bolkiah, controlled ...
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By 1725, Brunei had many of its supply routes to the Sultanate of Sulu. In 1888, Sultan Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin appealed to the British to stop further encroachment. In the same year, the British signed a "Treaty of Protection" and made Brunei a British protectorate, which lasted until 1984, when Brunei gained independence.
