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Bichara

Moro Chanceries and Jawi Legacy in the Philippines

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Authors:
  1. Isaac Donoso

    1. Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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  • Introduces 175 Jawi documents from the Philippine National Archives
  • Focuses on the cultural history of Islam in the Philippines
  • Provides new insights into the history of writing in the Philippines

Part of the book series: Islam in Southeast Asia (ISLSA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 1-9

  3. Formation of the Malay Sultanates

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 11-32

  4. Sultans in the Philippine Archipelago

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 33-81

  5. Political and Social Structures of the Philippine Sultanates

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 83-111

  6. Development of the Philippine Islamic Courts

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 113-136

  7. Jawi Tradition in the Philippines

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 137-168

  8. Moro Literature

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 169-187

  9. Moro Letters

    • Isaac Donoso
    Pages 189-207

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 209-216
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About this book

This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy. The standard narrative on Muslims in the Philippines is one that centres political and armed struggles within the region. However, two important aspects remain unattended: the cultural and intellectual production of the sultanates, and the Moro involvement in Southeast Asian Islamic civilization. This book connects the development and personality of the Philippine sultanates into the regional context of local communities that adopted an international faith. Political alliances and religious missions altered different ethnolinguistic groups and furnished them with the Word, the Qur’anic message, and the Arabic script. Indeed, customary orality and Adab shaped a way of being and acting modelled after what was called the Bichara. Particularly, the book studies the Moro Letter as cultural craft with political meaning, and Jawi heritage in the Philippines. A general catalogue of Jawi manuscripts from the National Archives of the Philippines is provided as appendix.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Isaac Donoso

About the author

Isaac Donoso, PhD, specializes in Philippine and Islamic Studies. He is the author of Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam (2013) and editor of More Islamic than We Admit: Philippine Islamic Cultural History (2017). He is a Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante in Spain.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bichara

  • Book Subtitle: Moro Chanceries and Jawi Legacy in the Philippines

  • Authors: Isaac Donoso

  • Series Title: Islam in Southeast Asia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0821-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0820-0Published: 03 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0823-1Published: 03 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0821-7Published: 02 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 3005-0308

  • Series E-ISSN: 3005-0316

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 325 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Southeast Asia, Islamic Theology, Political History, Politics and Religion

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