Table of Contents

Note: This is a work in progress

Foreword 

• Glorious Past

A. 14th Century and Earlier

• Boloboc Cave and the Beginning of the Prehistory of Arts in the Philippines

B. 15th Century

1. 1417: Sultan or Raja?
2. Raja Baguinda - A Sumatran Prince?
3. Sayyid Abubakar came to Sulu from where?
4. 1450: The Ascend of Shariful Hashim and the Establishment of the Sulu Sultanate
5. 1480: The Reign of Sultan Kamaluddin
6. Sultan Alauddin, the 3rd Sulu Sultan at the time of Brunei's Golden Age
7. Bual Nangka

C. 16th Century

1. 1505: Sultan Amir ul-Umara - "King of Kings, Lord of Lords"
2. 1527: Maharajah Upo, the Sultan of "Solot"
3. 1548: Sultan Nasiruddin and the Coming Castillian Peril
4. 1568: Pangiran Buddiman and the Beginning of the 320-year Moro-Spanish War
5. The Origin of Tausog Dublun

D. 17th Century
E. 18th Century

1. Dreadnought
2. Pirates or Privateers?
3. Political circles and votation
4. Sulu's historical districts

F. 19th Century

1. 1808: Sulu's shortest reigning monarchs
2. 1878: The North Borneo Concession
3. 1889: Brunei's Pengiran Muda Tengah Stayed in Tawi-Tawi
4. Jolo or Xolo?
5. Sulu or Sooloo?
6. Sulu and the Malay States

G. 20th Century

1. July 12, 1903 - Better in amicable mood
2. June 12, 1910 - Sultan's trip around the world
3. July 7, 1910 - First to West of Mecca
4. November 20, 1930 - Where the Sultan stayed in Sandakan?
5. 1936: Sulu's longest reigning monarchs
6. 1936: Cumulative reign and average tenure in office
7. 1936: Dynastic succession
8. 1968: Remembering their sacrifices
9. Sailing home ...
10. Rumor has it
11. Bangingi who?
12. Coffee and the Tausog
13. Decreolization of a creole language
14. Ethnicity within the Sulu Realm
15. Far far away
16. Jolo Today
17. Kuntaw, the Tausog Martial Arts
18. Language Siblings
19. Palmanis, the Art of Seduction
20. Sarang-sarang (Moderation)
21. Self-identification and outside attribution
22. Sulu Royalty: Blood not conferment
23. Sulu Olympians
24. Tawi-Tawi, Tawi-tawi or Tawitawi?
25. The Kiram-Bates Treaty: The End of Sovereignty
26. The Right to Succeed
27. Tindugan!
28. Why brave?
29. The Tausug Orthography

H. Historiography

1. Problems with chronology
2. Protecting our heritage
3. Charles O Frake's paper "The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnicity in the Sulu Archipelago" (Chapter 14 of the book "Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography" by Clifford Sather)
4. Raul Pertierra and Eduardo Ugarte, American Rule in the Muslim South and the Philippine Hinterlands (Chapter 10), Mixed blessing: the impact of the American colonial experience on politics (2002), Hazel M. McFerson (Ed). Greenwood Publishing Group.
Viviene SM Angeles writing on "Moros in the Media and beyond: representations of Philippine Muslims" for Contemporary Islam (Volume 4, Number 1)