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Jamalul ibni Punjungan Kiram III (July 16, 1938 – October 20, 2013) [1] [2] was a former self-proclaimed Sultan of the Sulu Sultanate [3] who claimed to be "the poorest sultan in the world". [4] He was known as an unsuccessful candidate for senator in the Philippine general elections in 2007 .
Sultan Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram—the eldest son, legitimate heir, and successor to the late Sultan Mohammed Mahakuttah A. Kiram (sultan 1974–1986)—is the current head of the Royal House of Sulu, from 16 February 1986 to the present. As a child of eight, on 24 May 1974, he was crowned Raja Muda (Crown Prince, heir to the throne) of the ...
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 ...
Sultan Jamalul Kiram II with William Howard Taft of the Philippine Commission in Jolo, Sulu (27 March 1901) Jamalul Kiram II rose to the throne following Sultan Harun Ar-Rashid allegedly being forced to abdicate in 1894 after Kiram's Datu supporters elected him to be sultan. Sultan Jamalul Kiram II ascended to the throne after undergoing the ...
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 Sultan Mohammad Mahakuttah Abdulla Kiram (who reigned 1974–1986), Crown Prince, [note 1] and senior claimant [note 2] to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu, [3] he succeeded his father as the 35th Sultan of Sulu.
As the Sultan of Sulu, he was officially recognised by the Philippine government. [2] In Memorandum Order 427 (1974), then-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared that Mahakuttah A. Kiram was the legitimate heir and that the government was obligated to support his coronation as Sultan of Sulu, which took place on 24 May 1974.
In 1974, Mohammed Esmail died and was duly succeeded by Mahakuttah. The accession of the new Sultan was recognized by the Filipino President, under whose act Manila acknowledged the personal status of the Sultan-King and the formation of the government of Sulu. Mahakuttah's son and heir Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram became the Raja Muda. [3]
In English toponymy, borrowed from Spanish toponymy, Sulu is the term that refers to the Sultanate of the Tausugs, with this term being an approximation (perhaps Spanish) of the root term "Sulug" in Tausug which is also pronounced as "Suluk" in Malay. Both these terms refer to the Tausug people, the first being an endonym and the second an ...