The first Malay settlement was established in Bengal and Malacca by Muslim Sufi teachers and traders from Arabia who had married native women extending towards the Sulus far reaching Selurong (Luzon). Prior to Bengal and Malacca, the Arabs' center for trading was in Canton, China. In the Sulus, a Sufi teacher and trader by the name of Tuan Mashaika'h (a Makdum-master of Islamic jurisprudence) arrived and first introduced the religion of Islam about during the 12th century when Sulu was under the Majapahit Empire of India. In 1310, Makdum Ul-Karim arrived and reinforced Islam. By 1425 to 1480, Makdum-Mohadon Abu'Bkr arrived and promulgated Qur'anic studies that had spread throughout the Malayas reverting most of the people to Islam when the Malayas was then known as the Muslim National Archipelago. Abu'Bkr in 1363 established the Brunei Sultanate government and in 1430 the Sulu Sultanate government-the first institutional government in the Malayas. His brother Makdum Ul-Karim later established the Sultanate of Lanao seated in Malabang and later the Sultanate of Maguindanao (Mindanao) seated at Dulawan-Cotabato.
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