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Filipino Americans portraying the traditional makeup and attire of a newlywed Yakan couple. The Seputangan is the most intricate design worn by the women around their waist or as a head cloth. The Palipattang is patterned after the color of the rainbow while the bunga-sama, after the python. Almost every Yakan fabric can be described as unique ...
The Sulu leader Paduka Pahala and his sons moved to China, where he died, and Chinese Muslims brought up his sons in Dezhou, where their descendants live and have the surnames An and Wen. In 1380 AD, [ note 2 ] Karim ul-Makhdum arrived in Simunul island from Malacca , again with Arab traders.
Like the empire of the Bruneian Sultanate, Sulu and other Muslim sultanates in the Philippines were introduced to Islam through Chinese Muslims, Persians, and Arab traders. Chinese Muslim merchants participated in the local commerce, and the Sultanate had diplomatic relations with Ming China. As it was involved in the tribute system, the Sulu ...
Sulu merchants often exchanged goods with Chinese Muslims, and also traded with Muslims of Arab, Persian, Malay, or Indian descent. [7] Islamic historian Cesar Adib Majul argues that Islam was introduced to the Sulu Archipelago in the late 14th century by Chinese and Arab merchants and missionaries from Ming China.
Most Muslims in the Philippines live on the island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago and Palawan, also known collectively as MINSUPALA. The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is the region of the Philippines that is composed of all the Philippines' predominantly Muslim provinces , namely: Basilan (except Isabela City ...
Samaon Sulaiman, a Filipino musician who is a recipient of the National Living Treasures Award (Philippines). Zacaria Candao, a Filipino politician who served as the first governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Zamzamin Ampatuan, a Filipino career bureaucrat. Datu Amir Baraguir, twenty-fifth Sultan of Sultanate of Maguindanao.
In 2004, the U.S. embassy in Manila dedicated part of its compound as the “Najeeb Saleeby Courtyard” to recognize Saleeby’s important contributions to promoting understanding between American and Filipino, and Christian and Muslim, peoples. [2] The embassy uses the courtyard for cultural events including musical performances and banquets.
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 ...