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Author · colonial official · historian
Najeeb M. Saleeby
born 1870 · died 1935
Lebanese-born American physician who served the Moro Province as superintendent of schools and agent for Moro affairs, and read the sultanates’ own tarsilas to write the first histories of them in English.
2 books on the shelf
1905Free to read
Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionNajeeb M. Saleeby
Bureau of Public Printing, Manila
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.
1908Free to read
The History of SuluNajeeb M. Saleeby
Bureau of Public Printing, Manila
Sulu from its earliest written genealogies to the American arrival, drawn from the sultanate’s own documents, Spanish records and the author’s years in Jolo. Out of copyright and free to read.