Hey, man! Here's one of the more up-to-date books they published about Prehispanic Philippines...
The book is entitled: "Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippines Islam" by Isaac Donoso.
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press.
Published (Just last year) 2013.
And the descriptions made by the Arabs of Prehispanic Philippines makes me lol in their sheer ridiculousness.
Let me type some excerpts I hand-wrote into my notebook.
Lol their descriptions are funnnehh!
Filipinos grow from trees, are boneless and don't have souls
"In the part of the land of China which is in the sea... The largest and most important island is Waq-waq. It is also called so because there are trees there [which] bear fruit in the month of Adar [March]... These fruits end in the feet of young girls which project from them... At the beginning at the month of June, they begin to fall from these trees and by the middle of the month, there is not one left on the trees. At the moment of the falling to the ground, they utter two cries "Waq! Waq!". When they have fallen to the ground, flesh without bones are found. They are more beautiful than words can describe but are without life or soul"
~ Kitab al-Jurafiyya by Al-Zuhri (1154-1161)
We are ruled by a naked Queen and her army of nude virgins.
"Similar to these tales of an island of women (Amazon) is the story given by Qazwini about Waq-waq, of a naked Queen surrounded by four thousand naked virgins."
~ Mukhtasa Al-Ajaib, page 183.
Filipino women sexually molest and rape all the male sailors who arrive in the Philippines, then, kill them after they rape them.
"What is important in that the myth was the first written account which explicitly shews the connection between the two extremes of the oikoumene known by the Arabs. Hence in the Kitab Ajaib al-Hind, we can find a tenth century reference to Iberian presence in Southeast Asia. According to this account, a person from Al-Andalus guided a ship lost near Sarawak, allowing it to arrive in an island on the way to China:
"Esta ruta fue la que devio sequir el jegue gaditano que, en pleno siglo x encontramos recorriendo, como polizon, el mar de la China. Un brusco cambio de viento aparto al bajel en que se encontraba escondido de la costa de Canton... Ahora tengo ochenta años y no he oido hablar a nadie que haya recorrido ests lugar [Probablemente se encontraba en las immediacones de filipinas]
Once on the island, all the [male] passengers were raped by thousands of women, 
then killed afterwards, except for the Andalusian [Spaniard] with whom a woman fell in love.
~Nafir Ahmad, Muslim contributions to Geography, Op. Cit 144-145.
Loool, I just read these at the library and jotted down the footnotes sourcing the fantastic Arab accounts of the Phlippines according to the book I mentioned at the first paragraph. I just jotted these down since I can't take it out, due to it, being a reference book...
But i'll continue posting some more, for tomorrow, for the shits and giggles.
I guess if I thought of them as cray-cray, with their civil war over the results of one cock-fight...
They even think that we're more cray-cray, according to the Arabs, we don't even have souls and our women rape men as a past-time.
I think you would enjoy their ridiculous descriptions of us, because they don't rack creativity at all.
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The Arabs hated us Visayans. They thought of us as slaves...
According to the Boxer Codex. The remnant Visayans who did not follow their Kings (Datus, or Co-equal paramount rulers in Malayo-Polynesian) to the re-established Kedatuan of Panay (After they severed themselves from the unjust ruler of Rajah Makatunao) and had remained content with the rule of Rajah Makatunao, bore witness to the supplanting of the rule under a Rajah with the rule of a Sultan.
“… It begins three hundred years (ago), a little more or less, when from the parts and provinces of the Malaya language which lie toward Meca (came) a lord of a city called Cauin. The name of this one was Sultan Yuso (Arabic Yusof), who according to what they say was king of that said city of Cauin, and he and his subjects departed from his kingdom and land bringing with him a great quantity of people in many ships, discovering many lands, and calling himself always king and lord of all the people he brought and calling them slaves. Following his voyage he arrived at the island of Borney on which they had some battles with the native Uisayas (Bisayas) so that they occupied them [the lands]; and having succeeded them (the Uisayas) well, he was settled some days in which he took a tongue of land and the fruits of it and found camphor, which is now to exist in other parts except this kingdom.
“… At the end of some days, he made port in the land of China: and asking permission in order to go ashore, he disembarked and went to see the king of China, whom he recognised as a superior king; and the said king of China conferred in him the title of king and gave him the insignia and royal (coat of) arms which nowadays the said king of Borney has; And seeing that the said Sultan Yuso was a bachelor, he married him to a Chinese woman. Accordingly it appears that the reason he persevered in the said kingdom of (Borney) was that she was a relative of the king of China. The said Chinese woman was lord of a city which was called Namtay in the kingdom of China, and the said Sultan Yuso made this marriage. He bade (farewell) to the king of China; and bringing his wife and the people with him, he returned to Borney, leaving in the said city of Namtay (one) who had charge of the rent as and property of his wife; and so (it is) nowadays although the natives of Namtay do not come with anything (for) the kings of Borney, not because the lords of the said city of Namtay have quit holding them (the rents), and they say the current rents are being held guarded for when some king of Borney might go there for it, the legacy.
“The said Sultan Yuso went to Borney. He settled there with his said slaves or vassals that he brought, and he put the native Uisayas (into) subjection, making them pay tribute. He had sons with the said (Chinese) wife. He died very old: and when he died, he left a tablet of gold. According to what they say it would be a fathom square and thin, on which he left mandates and they inscribed and wrote the kings of descended from him; and so they inscribed this said tablet which the same king kept and by his hand he inscribed his name. This tablet was lost when Doctor Fransisco de Sande, the governor who went from (these) Philippine islands, sacked Borney. It is understood that the old king, father of this one in whose possession it was, buried it or threw into the sea; and since the said king died at that time, he left no clarity (clear information) about what he did with the tablet.
Source: http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/...ustice-in.html
And also burned our Palace.
During the early part of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, the Spanish Augustinian Friar Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A. described Panay as: "...very similar to that of Sicily in its triangular form, as well as in it fertility and abundance of provision. It is the most populated island after Manila and Mindanao, and one of the largest (with over a hundred leagues of coastline). In terms of fertility and abundance, it is the first... It is very beautiful, very pleasant, and full of coconut palms... Near the river Alaguer (Halaur), which empties into the sea two leagues from the town of Dumangas..., in the ancient times, there was a trading center and a court of the most illustrious nobility (Before the Moro invasions) in the whole island."
So, in return, we also burned down their ****ing Palace too.
The Visayans, which before the Spanish came, previously waged war against the Sultanate of Sulu and the Kingdom of Tondo, had allied with the Spaniards and had also worked hand-in-hand with them in assaulting Brunei, after they successfully invaded and Christianized Islamic Manila.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castille_War
Oh Jarabs. You are so fun to spar with.
