Narrating Islamic Origins in the Philippines: From Princess Urduja to Alexander the Great
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Title: | Narrating Islamic Origins in the Philippines: From Princess Urduja to Alexander the Great |
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Authors: | Donoso, Isaac |
Research Group/s: | Humanismo - Europa |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filologías Integradas |
Keywords: | Philippine archipelago | Historiography | Islamization | Urduja | Ibn Baṭṭūṭa | Reconquista | Moro Wars | Iskandar Dhū l-Qarnayn |
Issue Date: | 19-Oct-2022 |
Publisher: | Brill |
Citation: | International Journal of Islam in Asia. 2022, 2(1): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/25899996-20221031 |
Abstract: | Different disconnected stories have been associated with the origins of Islam in the Philippines, enforcing historical narratives that have avoid placing the lens on other facts. The story of Princess Urduja that Ibn Baṭṭūṭa included in his Riḥla, dominated the ethos of an Edenic past with Arabic connections. The Spanish concept of Reconquista and the articulation of the so-called ‘Moro Wars’ pervaded ad nauseam the Moro condition and the Philippine national construction. The presence of Alexander the Great in Philippine silsilas have certainly received unequal attention, without going further than folklore. This paper aims to clarify myth and history in narrating the origins of Islam in the Philippines. In doing so recent historiographical trends and insights on Islamic mission in early modern Philippines are examined. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/128862 |
ISSN: | 2589-9988 (Print) | 2589-9996 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1163/25899996-20221031 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2022 |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/25899996-20221031 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - Humanismo-Europa - Artículos de Revistas y Capítulos de Libros |
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