BOOK REVIEWTHE RULERS OF MAGINDANAO IN MODERN HISTORY, 1515-1903 (Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines)Author: Datu Michael Ong MasturaPublished by the Aten…
Author: Datu Michael Ong MasturCEBU CITY — Centuries before “civilized” Europe – especially Portugal and Spain, and later on the Netherlands and United Kingdom – “discovered” the countries of Southeast Asia, there were already thriving kingdoms in Southeast Asia – including Mindanao – with high levels of social organization and governance.
Centuries before the Bangsamoro territory has been reduced to a very limited area of south-western and south-central Mindanao – after the long years of violent conflict, rebellion and peace negotiations – the Sultanates of Mindanao-Sulu dominated not just most of Mindanao but were expanding into the Visayas and Luzon.
It was not because of the lack of published books and available archival documents and materials – which can now be easily accessed.
The thick book has nine Chapters: 1) The Problem of Reconstruction in Magindanao History, 2) The Magindanao Dynasty and the Dumatus, 3) The Rajah Buayan in Buayan and the Rajahs of Sa-raya, 4) The Asala of the Datus of Mindanao, 5) Polarization under the Treaty Relations, 6) Mandawi Dar-ul Salam Indigenous Political System, 7) The Establishment of the Politico-Military Government of Mindanao, 8) Conditions in Moroland on the Eve of the 1896 Revolution and 9) Reappraisal and...
If one looks at the map of the Cotabato region, one can readily see the interfacing of these three localities to the Pulangi River which figures prominently in this historical narrative. One can also understand why Kabungsuwan established in this area the royal houses of Magindanao and Buayan. When he reached this location, Kabungsuwan anchored at Tinundan, an estuary close to the mouth of the Pulangi River which extended to a valley also referred to as Rio Grande de Mindanao.
The last name that appears in the book’s list of Sultan is that of Mangigin, son of Datu Dakula of Sibugay in 1896. But by 1899 “all Moro traditional authority in the Pulangi had been enfeebled; every strong member of the aristocracy had been crushed or passed away,” thus signaling the collapse of the Sultanate. In the interval between the Spanish evacuation and the encroachment of the Americans, the combined leadership of Datu Ali and Datu Piang would attempt to recoup the supremacy of Buayan.
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