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The History of Sulu
- Publisher
- Bureau of Public Printing, Manila
- Year
- 1908
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 283
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
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.
Najeeb M. Saleeby wrote this history for the Division of Ethnology in Manila, and it appeared in 1908. He first went looking for the Genealogy of Sulu, the tarsila, to learn what happened in Sulu before the Spanish came. He writes that it took 2 and a half years, and trips in small Moro boats to visit datus, before the prime minister of the Sultan of Sulu gave him the original manuscript. He also obtained the Annals of Sulu and interviewed leading Tausug elders.
The book opens with a geography of the archipelago and the town of Jolo, then gives a translation of the genealogy. Chapters follow on the coming of Islam and the rise of the sultanate, the long wars with Spain, the treaties of 1836, 1851 and 1878 with translations of their Sulu texts, the decline of Sulu and the reigns of its last sultans up to Jamalul Kiram II.
For the Spanish period Saleeby relied mainly on Colonel Miguel Espina's notes on Jolo. A closing chapter weighs the mistakes of Spanish rule, and appendices reprint Spanish reports and letters.
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