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Moro Literature

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This chapter analyses the features of folk Moro literature as oral tradition that built the local Adab, this is to say, the cultural etiquette reinforced with the Arab and Islamic traditions. On the one hand, the chapter studies the presence of Philippine places in Arabic geographical literature. On the other, the literature known as ‘Ajā’ib—marvelous tales from far away—helps to understand the construction of a fashionable literature that fascinated the old court of Baghdad and preluded the Islamic definition of Southeast Asia.

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Donoso, I. (2023). Moro Literature. In: Bichara. Islam in Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0821-7_7

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