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Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion
- Publisher
- Bureau of Public Printing, Manila
- Year
- 1905
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 107
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
The first English account of Maguindanao’s genealogies and of the law codes and Islam of Maguindanao and Sulu, translated by an American colonial official who read the originals. Out of copyright and free to read.
Najeeb Saleeby's papers were published in 1905 by the Ethnological Survey in Manila, under the American colonial government. They are original studies and translations from Moro texts. Saleeby explains that the tarsila, the written genealogies kept by each sultanate and datuship, were the only written source on early Moro history, and that the datus had long kept them from outsiders. He obtained exact copies from the chief datus of the Rio Grande valley and published their translations for the first time.
The book has 3 chapters. The first covers the history of Magindanao: a sketch of the main Moro settlements, Mindanao mythology, and 8 translated manuscripts. These include the coming of Sharif Kabungsuwan and the conversion of Magindanao to Islam, and the genealogies of Buayan, Bagumbayan and the Iranun datus. The second covers Moro law: a translation of the Luwaran, the Magindanao code, with its Arabic marginal quotations, and 2 Sulu codes. The third gives 2 Sulu orations, one of them a Friday sermon.
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