Bichara

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.

• I. Sources on Philippine Islam1. Sources internally createda) Silsila / ةلسلسb) Bichara / بچارةc) Kitāb / كتابd) Khuṭba / خطبة2. Sources externally created3. Towards Philippine Islamic StudiesII. History of Arabic script in the Philippines1. From Kawi to Jāwī2. Letra de Meca: Jāwī script in the Tagalog region3. Aljamiado hispanofilino4. Epistolography, Bichara and the Moro chancelleriesIII. Jāwī manuscripts in the National Archives of the Philippines1. Sections2. Contents3. Categoriesa) Letter: Sūra / سورةb) Treaty: Kapitūrasyūn / و رس وc) Licensed) Others4. Dates5. Language6. Physical descriptionCATALOGUECriteriaMalay LettersTausug LettersMaguindanao LettersSpanish Letters