Datu: Perbezaan antara semakan

Dalam struktur masyarakat silam Muslim Filipino, [[sultan]] merupakan kedudukan yang tertinggi, diikuti oleh datu. Kebesaran seorang datu diukur dari jumlah pengikutnya. In return for tribute and labor, the datu provided aid in emergencies and advocacy in disputes with other communities, through the ''agamat''. A datu is basic to the smooth functioning of the Filipino Muslim society. He was a powerful authority figure who may have as many as four wives but in modern times usually has only one. In the old days, they led raids on other villages. They may demand revenge (''maratabat'') for the death of a follower or upon injury to his honor. Datu masih berperan sebagai ketua masyarakat Islam di [[Mindanao]] dan mentadbirkan hukum Sharia. Sokongan daripada datu adalah penting untuk menjalankan program-program kerajaan Filipina pada masa kini dalam masyarakat Islam di sana.

 

 

Apabila Filipina dikristiankan, ramai datu-datu yang ikut sama. Datu-datu ini diberikan hak untuk memerintah kawasan-kawasan mereka di bawah naungan Kerajaan Sepanyol menurut undang-undang yang dimeterai oleh Raja Philip II. <ref>“It is not right that the Indian chiefs of Filipinas be in a worse condition after conversion; rather they should have such treatment that would gain their affection and keep them loyal, so that with the spiritual blessings that God has communicated to them by calling them to His true knowledge, the temporal blessings may be added, and they may live contentedly and comfortably. Therefore, we order the governors of those islands to show them good treatment and entrust them, in our name, with the government of the Indians, of whom they were formerly lords. In all else the governors shall see that the chiefs are benefited justly, and the Indians shall pay them something as a recognition, as they did during the period of their paganism, provided it be without prejudice to the tributes that are to be paid us, or prejudicial to that which pertains to their encomenderos.” Felipe II, ''Ley de Junio 11, 1594'' in ''Recapilación de leyes'', lib. vi, tit. VII, ley xvi. Also cf. [[Emma Helen Blair]] and James Alexander Robertson, ''The Philippine Islands (1493-1898)'', Cleveland: The A.H. Clark Company, 1903, Vol. XVI, pp. 155-156.</ref> Raja Philip II juga menitah bahawa datu-datu ini harus diberikan penghormatan yang sama seperti sebelum mereka menjadi penganut Kristian. Datu-datu yang telah dikristiankan ini menjadi institusi memerintah yang elit dan eksklusif yang dipanggil [[Principalia]], di perbandaran-perbandaran Filipina Sepanyol.

 

==Senarai Daru-datu di Filipina==