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Record Nr.

UNINA9910678245303321

Autore

Donoso Isaac

Titolo

Bichara : Moro Chanceries and Jawi Legacy in the Philippines / / by Isaac Donoso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9789811908217

9789811908200

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Collana

Islam in Southeast Asia, , 3005-0316

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Southeast Asia - History

Islam - Doctrines

World politics

Religion and politics

History of Southeast Asia

Islamic Theology

Political History

Politics and Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 wascalled 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. 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.