(Delivered online by Dr. Steven Rood at the book launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s ‘The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Sou…
I first met Datu Michael Mastura in 1987, when the Cordillera Studies Center at the University of the Philippines in Baguio held a conference on autonomy for the Cordillera. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with him frequently over the years.
This is an ambitious and wide-ranging book but its center is an explication of the two major elements of Majul’s “constellation of sultanates” — the Sultanate of Magindanao and the Rajahnate of Buayan in the Pulangi River basin .
Though the book is not a detailed history of Moro Wars, it does deal with the hostilities between Moros and the Spanish state and church. In his forward to the book, Patricio Abinales states that with its publication “there is no more reason for any Filipino or Moro scholar not to teach courses on Magindanao and Moro histories.” I remember that 11 years ago I had a teaching sabbatical semester in Washington DC and tried to construct material about the Philippines from the Mindanao perspective.
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