TY - BOOK AU - Donoso,Isaac TI - Bichara: Moro Chanceries and Jawi Legacy in the Philippines T2 - Islam in Southeast Asia, SN - 9789811908217 U1 - 959 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Southeast Asia KW - History KW - Islam KW - Doctrines KW - World politics KW - Religion and politics KW - History of Southeast Asia KW - Islamic Theology KW - Political History KW - Politics and Religion N2 - This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy. The standard narrative on Muslims in the Philippines is one that centres political and armed struggles within the region. However, two important aspects remain unattended: the cultural and intellectual production of the sultanates, and the Moro involvement in Southeast Asian Islamic civilization. This book connects the development and personality of the Philippine sultanates into the regional context of local communities that adopted an international faith. Political alliances and religious missions altered different ethnolinguistic groups and furnished them with the Word, the Qur'anic message, and the Arabic script. Indeed, customary orality and Adab shaped a way of being and acting modelled after what wascalled the Bichara. Particularly, the book studies the Moro Letter as cultural craft with political meaning, and Jawi heritage in the Philippines. A general catalogue of Jawi manuscripts from the National Archives of the Philippines is provided as appendix. Isaac Donoso, PhD, specializes in Philippine and Islamic Studies. He is the author of Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam (2013) and editor of More Islamic than We Admit: Philippine Islamic Cultural History (2017). He is a Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante in Spain UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0821-7 ER -