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Difference Between Maranao and Muslim

The document discusses different types of Muslims: 1. Secularists Muslims who have limited knowledge of the Quran. 2. Moderates who know the Quran but seek to make their faith relevant to modern life. 3. Fundamentalists who want to apply more extreme verses of the Quran literally. It also describes mystical Sufi Muslims who focus on their spiritual inner life, African American Muslims defined by their ethnicity, and Ijtihadists who favor innovative interpretation of Islam to find a place in the modern world.

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Difference Between Maranao and Muslim

The document discusses different types of Muslims: 1. Secularists Muslims who have limited knowledge of the Quran. 2. Moderates who know the Quran but seek to make their faith relevant to modern life. 3. Fundamentalists who want to apply more extreme verses of the Quran literally. It also describes mystical Sufi Muslims who focus on their spiritual inner life, African American Muslims defined by their ethnicity, and Ijtihadists who favor innovative interpretation of Islam to find a place in the modern world.

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Maranao

Muslim
 Introduction
 Location and Homeland
 Language
 Religion
 Interpersonal Relation
 Clothing
 Cultural heritage
 Folk art, crafts and hobbies
 The largest non-Christian ethnic group in the
Philippines.
 Have lived around Lake Lanao in Western Mindanao
since at least the 13th century
 Maranao never established a single state but rather
divided into a great number of small “sultanates” in
continual warfare with each other.
 Successfully resisted incorporation into Spanish and
Americans colonial state in the 20th century managed to
subdue them.
 Maranao (M’ranao) means “People of the Lake”,
referring to lake lanao.

 Lies 670 m (2,200 ft.) above sea level in Western


Mindanaao.

 Divided into two provinces: Lanao del Norte (676,395


of the population as of 2015) and Lanao del Sur
(933,260 of population as of 2010).
 Maranao language is an Austronesian language whose
closest similarities are to other indigenous language of
Mindanao (though not to Visayan-type language of
their fellow Muslim Tausugs.)

 Arabic script was used to preserve genealogies


(sarsila), religious literature and Islamic tales.
 Islam.
 Most Maranao are Muslim.
 A Maranao’s sense of “maratabat”.
 In towns, many Marana wear non-traditional clothing,
not just Western clothing but also the Filipino barong
tagalog, Malay fashions, and most recently Arab and
Pakistani garb.

 The malong, a sarong whose edges are often connected


by a langkit.

 Kombong or veil for women.


 Kulintang – musical instruments of Maranao made
from series of eight knobbed gongs played with two
sticks.
 Dabakan - a wooden drum also played with two sticks.
 Hanging gongs- agong, pamulsan and babandir.
 The Insi- a bamboo flute.
 Kobing – jew’s-harp.
 Kotyapi – a two-stringed instrument with a sound box
in the shape of an abstract crocodile.
 Maranao are most famous for their crafts.
 Okir – intricate carving for household object, canoes,
and the projecting beams (panolong) of torogan (a
senior kin-group).
 Sari-manok- is a stylized bird situated.
 Women weave cloth with complex geometric patterns
(which have poetical names) often using andon, a tie-
dying technique (ikat). They also produce mats and
baskets.
 Introduction

 Other Types of Muslims


 Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet
Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century CE.
 Those who followed Islam is called Muslim.
 Muslims are people believed in the oneness of God.
 Arabic word for God is “ALLAH”.
 Monotheist.
1) Secularists Muslim
2) Moderates Muslim
3) Fundamentalists Muslim
4) Mystic Muslims (Sufism)
5) African American Islam
6) Ijtihadists/Modernists
Are muslims who do not have a knowledge of the
contents of the Qur’an and only know a verse or two to
justify their life as Muslim.
o Moderates know the Qur’an but seek to make their
faith relevant to modern life.

o Try to reconcile the contradicting verses in the Qur’an


in such ways that Muslims may tolerate Jews and
Christian living among them.
Fundamentalists are those who want to apply the more
extreme verse of Qur’an to the letter.
 Focus on their inner spiritual life as response to
modernity. Many of the practices of mystical Muslims
are found in other eastern or animistic religions.

 The relationship with God is paramount.


 There Muslims are defined by their ethnicity and fall
into two categories.

 First, are mostly sunni Muslims who want to get back


to the original religion of their African ancestors.

 Second, are the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist


movement with religious ideas that other Muslims
deem “heretical”.
 These Muslims favor re-opening the door of creative
and innovative interpretation of Islam in order to find a
place in the modern world.

 They want a version of Islam that will have positive


impacts on the world around it.
Thank you!!!

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