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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.
This is a list of sultans and later claimants of the former Sulu sultanate.The Royal House of Sulu is a royal house of the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines.Historically the head of the Sultanate of Sulu, the position of sultan today carries with it no political powers or privileges and is mostly a cultural figure.
Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram (born 28 August 1966) [1] [2] is the head of the Royal House of Sulu, a position which he has held since 16 February 1986.As the eldest son of the former Sultan Mohammad Mahakuttah Abdulla Kiram (who reigned 1974–1986), he is a claimant to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu. [3]
This officially concluded over 400 years of Sulu independent sovereignty, although the war gains had already been organized into the Department of Mindanao and Sulu. Military Governor Hugh Lenox Scott of the Sulu archipelago and Sultan Jamalul Kiram II of Sulu along with local government officials and hadjis (c. 1905)
The Royal House of Sulu is an Islamic royal house which ruled the Sulu Sultanate (now part of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia).In 1962, the Philippine Government under the leadership of President Diosdado Macapagal, who himself was a distant cousin of the Sulu Sultans, counting among his ancestors Princess Laila Menchanai of Sulu, the great-grandmother of the Muslim king of Manila ...
Under the agreement the Sultan of Sulu either ceded or leased land in North Borneo to the BNBC, which agreed to pay the Sultan and his heirs an annual fee. [3] [a] After its formation in 1963, Malaysia, [5] as the successor to the BNBC, paid the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate an annual fee until the 2013 Lahad Datu standoff. [3]
Jamal ul-Azam (d. 1881), also spelled Jamalul Azam, [1] was the sultan of Sulu from 1862 to 1881. [2] He was infamous for his maintenance of extensive contracts with British and German traders. These were done to counter Spanish dominance in Mindanao.
The Sultan granted authority to the Philippine government under the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal in 1962. In 1969, he met with President Ferdinand Marcos . The Philippine government officially recognized the continued existence of the Sulu Sultanate and the office of Sultan of Sulu.