SULTANATE OF MAGUINDANAO

• Mamalu decided to hold fast to their ancestral animist beliefs


  Tabunaway converted
• Wenduling was invaded by Pon-i


  Wenduling rebelled against Pon-i after the Majapahit Empire's invasion of Pon-i. Islamization then happened afterwards
• The brothers parted ways

  Mamalu headed to the mountains and Tabunaway to the lowlands
• Before the founding of the Sultanate of Maguindanao, according to the Yuan Dynasty, Wenduling was its predecessor-state
• Wenduling was invaded by then Hindu Brunei, called Pon-i
• Islamization

  Two brothers named Mamalu and Tabunaway lived peacefully in the Cotabato Valley on Mindanao and then Shariff Mohammed Kabungsuwan of Johor in what is now modern day Malaysia preached Islam in the area in the 16th century
• They vowed to honor their kinship
• An unwritten pact of peace between Muslims and the indigenous peoples was forged through the two brothers
• According to the Yuan Dynasty

  1304
• A polity known as Wenduling was the predecessor-state of the Sultanate of Maguindanao</b>
• Before the founding of the Sultanate of Maguindanao, according to the Yuan Dynasty, Nanhai Zhi (At year 1304), a polity known as Wenduling 文杜陵 was its predecessor-state.
• The Maguindanao Sultanate had a close alliance with the Ternate Sultanate
• Shariff Kabungsuwan introduced Islam in the area which was earlier Hindu-influenced from Srivijaya times
• Shariff Kabungsuwan established himself as Sultan seated in Malabang-Lanao


  End of the 16th century
• The Ternate Sultanate was a sultanate in the Moluccas region of Indonesia
• Alliance between Maguindanao and Ternate Sultanates

  • Ternate regularly sent military reinforcements to Maguindanao during the Spanish-Moro Wars
• Colors connected to royalty

  • Yellow
• This was to have help dissuaded Spanish encroachments into the island of Maguindanao and Sulu itself
• Items exported to the Moros


  • gongs
  • Chinese tableware
• During the Spanish colonial period, the Sultanate of Maguindanao was able to defend its territory, preventing the Spaniards from colonising the entire Mindanao
• The Palawan island was ceded by Sulu Sultan Sahabuddin
• The island of Palawan was ceded to the Spanish government


  1705
• The Sultan in Mindanao used the color yellow
• Chinese idioms entered Mindanao culture
• Chinese gongs, yellow as a color of royalty, and idioms of Chinese origin entered Mindanao culture