The Sultanate of Sulu: How a Tiny Kingdom Became a Maritime Power

[@KirbyAraullo]

I had planned on releasing this last November 17th, but given recent events (I was recently hospitalized for severe asthma attack and respiratory failure) and the current typhoons in the Philippines (delaying some of the artwork), I had to reshuffle my channel’s schedule. For instance, the Revolt of the Lakans video was initially set for October 26 but will now be released next week. ❤‍🩹 Maraming salamat for your patience and support as I get back on my feet to share more amazing content with you all! 🙏🏽

[@Arrivillaga_]

Stay safe!

[@louchuru9037]

Pwede mo bang i-cover kung ano yung tunog ng lumang tagalog noong hindi pa sinakop ng kastila ang pilipinas? Sobrang curious kasi ako dahil sobrang dami nating loan words sa mga kastila at americano (ayos lang loan words galing sa ibang southeast asian dahil karatig naman sila). Ano kayo yung tunog ng tagalog noon?

[@hilariodoton1892]

Dapat Tagalog ka sa history Ng Philippines okaya Naman kapampanganin mo nalang.

[@KirbyAraullo]

@@hilariodoton1892 Hindi lahat ng viewers ko ay marunong mag Tagalog. Mali ding isipin na dapat laging Tagalog pag ang paksa ay kasaysayan ng Pilipinas.

[@KirbyAraullo]

Pero don’t worry, madalas may mga Tagalog version din ang mga video ko 😉

[@Aninkovsky]

It is trully fascinating that history of Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei are deeply interconnected

[@KirbyAraullo]

Absolutely! And don't forget about Malaysia too! Maritime Southeast Asia's history is so intricate and full of shared experiences. It's amazing to explore how these cultures have influenced each other over time 😊

[@cirilobarrera9053]

" AND MALAYSIA IS CONNECTED TO CHINA IN CREATING TENSION, LAND GRABBING, AND DIVISION AMONG SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATION ' DIDN'T YOU NOTICE ???

[@asmrjackunboxinggames4328]

How fascinating BRUNEI is the only one remaining that is surviving. PHILIPPINES, MALAYSIA, & INDONESIA are merely the equivalent and the successor of their former European Colonizers.

[@zariaalhajmoustafa2573]

Is very rare to see some channel talk about South East Asia history and specifically Islamic era of Southeast Asia in English

[@N192K001]

Wow, I was aware of the sultanates & the significance of the Sultanate of Sulu (even today, with the land-disputes with Malaysia). But that it was founded by a descendant of Muhammad (& your shared ancestry)‽ Mind blown! Goes to show: There's way more to history than we're taught in schools (regretfully). Thankfully, we have channels like your filling-in the gaps. Keep-up the good work, man! I love looking into the complexities of (modern) geopolitics, territorial-disputes, and rival-governments, but haven't looked into the Sulu & Brunei disputes, given the very long histories involved. So, it would be nice to see your expert take on the situation, its background, etc.

[@KirbyAraullo]

Thanks so much for the kind words! 😊 There’s definitely so much more to the Sultanate’s history than what we learn in school, and I’m glad the video highlighted those connections. I’ve been covering these connections and topics in my videos, so stay tuned for more! Salámat for the support! 🙏🏽

[@matalino3614]

Ang husay ng pagkakagawa nito Datu Kirby!

[@3idontknow3]

Make one for Sultanate of Maguindanao

[@KirbyAraullo]

Yes! I'm working on it 😊

[@N192K001]

YEAH! Actually, @KirbyAraullo, it would be nice for there to be a series, on the (unfortunately, much-ignored) histories of the pre-Colonial kingdoms, sultanates, rajanates, tribes, etc. If you have the time to make it, that would be so cool!

[@alsuvarnadvipadanargentum1743]

@@KirbyAraullo Suggestion: After your Sultanates of Mindanao video series, are you planning on making videos on the “History of Islam in Southern Luzon” idea? Mostly because the ruling Dynasties based on Brunei, Sulu and Maynila are Blood relatives of one another?

[@okkurwa5847]

You are pretty wrong 😡

[@junahexhenodiala4540]

At yung iba pang kaharian sa pinas, gawan mo din po ng video​@@KirbyAraullo

[@revinhatol]

Creating the region of BangsaSug is just over the horizon...

[@kurugaligala2266]

I was in Grade 3 when I learned about the spread of Islam in Mindanao, starting from Sulu with Tuan Mashaika. It's the foundation of my love of History.

[@al-mudznieabubakar35]

Mashallah is very impressive in the history of the Sultanate of Sulu and its maritime power and spreading of Islam no doubt up to Luzon Rajanates.

[@JVncnt-mi9lf]

Big mistake with the lease contract of Sabah to the British oil company, then later treaty of Paris to transfer it to Malaysia. Even a win in an arbitrational court in the UN couldn't bring justice to the Filipino royals.

[@mugiwaragang]

If sabah really want to be rule by sulu they will willingly leave malaysia because sabah is not a state,its a patner..sabah,sarawak and malay federation combined to make malaysia..so even sulu legally got sabah..the ppl might not be happy

[@MrStalkerhunter]

Btw on a lighter side of things, the original dayang-dayang singer was found after searching for 3 decades and she is from Tawi-Tawi, kzbin.info/www/bejne/b36alK2Ci9ConMU&si=QfKMKB2xbYQ6PRW4

[@KuyaKloris]

It was my birthday yesterday

[@KirbyAraullo]

Nice! Belated happy birthday! 🥳

[@jamaladdinbinaladdin3639]

Out of Topic: I just want to ask, where I can purchase a Polo Shirt like yours? Salamuch

[@KirbyAraullo]

From my friend, Elle Karayan, who works directly with the indigenous weavers in the Philippines 😊 www.ellekarayan.com/collections/all

[@mesughadjiomarjr.7240]

make one for Maranao, Pat a pong-apongan a ranao / Kingdom of Maranao

[@MrJayseg]

you keep mentioning your connection to ancient Filipino royalty, how do you know that exactly and what is your view on the principalia who sold out the land to the foreigners and allowed indigenous cultures to be supplanted? what’s your view on that? And where do you get those traditional malongs and head pieces in the Philippines? I saw it on your instagram

[@simonjrnunez4519]

What country is atschi?

[@kennethadrian]

wheres that shirt from?

[@KirbyAraullo]

From my friend, Elle Karayan, who works directly with the indigenous weavers in the Philippines 😊 www.ellekarayan.com/collections/all

[@jen8932]

Hi Sir, labas po ito sa topic ng video. Ano po ang history natin in terms of shaking hands and greetings. Dati po kasi noong bata ako ay nilalagay namin ang kanang kamay o kaliwang kamay sa aming dibdib kapag babati kami sa mga guro, sa mga bisita or mga superior sa mga school. Natural na po ba sa mga Filipino or native people ang pakikipag-shake hands. For example, hindi natural makipag-shake hands ang mga babae noon sa kapwa nila babae, (old days). Lalo na kunv iba ang kasarian, parang bawal ang makipagkamayan. Hindi lang ito sa Muslim pero around the Philippines na hindi natural sa babae ang makipag-shake hands. Tapos yung mga lalaki ilalagay nila yung kamay nila sa dibdib tapos yuyuko imbis na handshake. Kapag nakasuot ng sombrero, kukunin ang sombrero sa ulo at ilalagay sa dibdiba at yuyuko. Ganito na ba talaga tayo kahit noong unang panahon?

[@CARL_093]

please do a video about the British occupation of Philippines

[@KirbyAraullo]

I already did 😉 I made 3 videos about it from 2019-2021

[@KirbyAraullo]

Here's the most recent ones: Part 1 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIbGd6pnipmof8U Part 2 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ-0c6mweclqpbM

[@CARL_093]

@@KirbyAraullo thanks i will look on your channel :)

[@CARL_093]

@@KirbyAraullo thanks you very much :)

[@skyant3030]

🎉😊❤

[@CARL_093]

Established The Sultanate of Sulu was established in 1450 by Sultan Abu Bakr. It was the first self-governing and self-determining state in the Philippines. Location The Sultanate of Sulu ruled over the Sulu Archipelago, parts of Palawan, coastal areas of Zamboanga City, and parts of Sabah and North Kalimantan in Borneo. Significance The Sultanate of Sulu was a Sunni Muslim state that played a key role in the development of Muslim society in the Southern Philippines before the colonial era. It also strengthened the spread of Islam and established diplomatic relations with other countries. End The Sultanate of Sulu lasted until 1915, when it was succeeded by the Maguindanao Sultanate in the early 16th century. In 1940, the sultan ceded the Sulus to the Philippines. Sultans Some sultans of Sulu include: Sultan Jamal ul-Azam (1862-1881) Sultan Mohammed Badarud-Din II (1881-1884) Sultan Harun Ar-Rashid (1886-1894) Sultan Jamalul Kiram II (1894-1936)

[@marinomaranion5757]

I love the. Information. That you are presenting. Here. But your. Unnatural cadence. Much. Like my punctuation make. It difficult. To understand.

[@rinotilde2699]

It's not "unnatural." That's just his accent. But I imagine many wouldn't be familiar with his accent.

[@jeksixten5751]

Before it became a Sultanate it was Rajahnate...

[@matalino3614]

Mali ang terminong Rajahnate

[@yieeeeeeeeeeeeee]

❤ ( o w o

[@DarkR0ze]

Does this mean that you're Muslim?

[@ftrmntk]

Just because he made a video of an Islamic state?

[@DarkR0ze]

@@ftrmntk no, because any royal lineage within the Muslim world has the descendants as Muslim by laws

[@ftrmntk]

@@DarkR0ze Sorry. I commented that before the part he said he's a descendant of the Sultan.

[@DarkR0ze]

@@ftrmntk I forgive you

[@donchristiealcuela7484]

Muslim or Islam is a Faith, anyone can be Muslim. Our ancestors in Philippines before Spaniards came were mix of Faith (Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or Anito (Pagan) belief.

[@egutz1405]

333 knows...

[@RainDay-q8b]

1380 🙂 400 Yrar's TausOg Ruled this Country before Spanish Arrive.

[@justice_crash2521]

Nope

[@mesughadjiomarjr.7240]

Spanish did not conquer Mindanao and Palawan

[@gravedanger5771]

Philippines is Ophir the bible. 4000 yrs ago

[@paulconfesor9750]

deym si haring solomon nag mention nito, sana maging maganda kapalaran ko sa laot I want to preserve our identity as a full pledge Fisher folks dito sa paranaque.

[@glennsriyousefbaun-cueto9287]

😂😂😂

[@matalino3614]

No mali po yan

[@gravedanger5771]

ano naman batayan mo bat mali 😂, mag basa ka. kasi ng Bible para makita mo 🤣

[@amistradd5392]

Sulu has never been a maritime "power" nor has it ever been an empire. After Spain-British Madrid Protocol, Sulu sultanate ceased to exist and in 1915 Carpenter's Agreement ended whatever limited influence they have. From Spain, British to Japanese occupation, not once does this "sultan" ever sent his armies to take back his "kingdom", that in itself is an easily identifiable indication that one monarchy loses its influence, power or administrative to a certain region. This attempt by Sulu and Philipine gov is just a rallying cry in election and a veiled escape of domestic realities of Philipine's internal politics and economic, a bait dangled for plebeians support, a pained realisation of sulu's wannabe sultan of something they lost and never fought for. We Sabahan people have made and decide what is best for our lives - its never been with Philipines or Sulu, but with Malaysia. You can debate and beg, claim and yell Sabah is yours, but it will never be because we dont choose YOU.

[@ftrmntk]

Sulu wasn't an empire. It was a tributary of the Majapahit empire. You should be careful with your words.

[@KirbyAraullo]

While it's true that Sulu was mentioned as a tributary of the Majapahit empire (Nagarakertagama, 1365), Sulu eventually became an empire on its own in the 1600s-1800s. Keep in mind that the Sulu Sultanate (the topic of this video) was established in the early 1400s, around the same time that the Majapahit began to decline due to its civil war/internal conflict over the Majapahit throne. Sulu's 'Golden Age' or the peak of its maritime power began from the 1600s to the 1800s, long after the collapse of the Majapahit empire in the late 1400s/early 1500s. Just because Sulu was once a tributary to the Majapahit it doesn't mean it cannot be free and grow as an empire on its own. That's like saying the United States cannot be an empire because it was once a colony of the UK, or like saying that the British Empire cannot be an empire because the early English kingdoms were once tributaries of the Vikings or colonies of the Roman Empire.

[@ftrmntk]

@KirbyAraullo I love that you said that the United States can be an empire. It already is and it's slowly crumbling

[@ftrmntk]

@KirbyAraullo I did a quick Google of Sulu Empre. It said it never became an empire. Is this something that scholars are debating?

[@silangangbahagi9267]

​​@@ftrmntk just looking at it's expansion, obviously it became an empire, The Mighty Sultanate of Sulu ⬜🟪🟪

[@ftrmntk]

@@silangangbahagi9267 how many states did it govern? I'm just saying a sultanate is just one state. It is not an empire. My point is this is a history channel. He should be careful of his words. People are learning from him.

[@jjlandolandria5147]

Behavior on slam,we don't unity Crime,,, always

[@matalino3614]

Tanga!

[@ludwigjosh9619]

Muslim claiming they are the 1st while forgetting the existence pf hinduism and buddhism in philippines hundread year before islam

[@KirbyAraullo]

Nowhere in this video was it claimed or implied that Hinduism or Buddhism didn’t exist in the Philippines before the arrival of Islam. The focus of this video is on the establishment of the Sultanate of Sulu and its historical context, not a comparative discussion of earlier religious influences.

[@ludwigjosh9619]

@KirbyAraullo im talking about muslim claiming they are the 1st people on the philippines (since the topic is sultanate of sule)one of the few reason why they want to seperate mindanao from the islands is becuz of that thinking this trouble makers are worst crybullies the fact that we have to deal with people who thinks they are the victim while commiting the most heinous of crime is sickening,these people is pressuring us to wage war on malaysia becuz of sabah They only call themselves filipino when convinient to them but bangsamoro when not

[@kobss3867]

As a muslim we don't claim that we are the first, we only claim that we're here before the Christian arrives. Sa katunayan ang hindu ay may malaking influence sa culture namin (maranao) specially in our language like "Sorga and Naraka" means Heaven and hell na nanggaling sa salitang hindu na Swarga or Svarga at Naraka. At malaki din ang influence ng hindu sa maranao mythology like Garuda na isang malaking ibon na nakatira daw sa mga malalaking bundok ng Ranao (Lanao) na akala ko originally from maranao, hindi pala😅 at marami pang iba. Yun lang share ko lang😂 Pero may mga muslim din talaga na keneclaim na kami ang first. Yan yung mga wala pang alam about our history pero hindi lahat.

[@DobbyMaraj]

You talk as if this whole issue on Moro-Filipino stemmed from nowhere, when it is basically caused by your people. Our struggle came from the cultural oppression by the Filipino gov’t years ago. And this is also shared with our visayan countrymen. For years, the imperial Filipinos have tried so hard to erase the Moro identity and history, hence why you don’t hear much about the moro and Islamic history of the Philippines in our education system. We were driven away from much of our ancetral lands. We fought for our identity and rights to be acknowledged as equal countrymen and yet ignorants like you only see it as trouble-making. The fact that even now, this issue is still rampant. Look how the northerners treat us southern like we are not part of the greater Filipino identity. That our Moro, Mindanaoan, and visayan cultures and history are scarcely represented in mainsteam Filipino media and history. You only call us Filipinos when its convenient to you. Using our cultures to showcase in your international agendas. While treating us like second-class citizens. It’s disgusting how you think this whole issue on Moro struggles are caused simply because we want to bring chaos. No. It is caused by decades of systematic cultural oppression.

[@alonzolobaton4631]

The Land of Ophir🤫

[@jjlandolandria5147]

Don't create foolishness history ,you are lie in your own, Sultan is not from Philippines,, don't be assumed

[@matalino3614]

Ayusin mo muna yang grammar mo bago ka magmagaling na akala mo kung sinong eksperto.

[@jjlandolandria5147]

@matalino3614 ohh where its wrong may words,,, please go to your school and study 50 years

[@jjlandolandria5147]

@matalino3614 I think you are one uneducated between us ,,,look at may words and go to your teacher, being your mentor before you React of nonsense,like you

[@MrStalkerhunter]

Btw on a lighter side of things, the original dayang-dayang singer was found after searching for 3 decades and she is from Tawi-Tawi, kzbin.info/www/bejne/b36alK2Ci9ConMU&si=QfKMKB2xbYQ6PRW4

[@MrStalkerhunter]

Btw on a lighter side of things, the original dayang-dayang singer was found after searching for 3 decades and she is from Tawi-Tawi, kzbin.info/www/bejne/b36alK2Ci9ConMU&si=QfKMKB2xbYQ6PRW4