Lanao del Sur, officially the Province of Lanao del Sur, is a province in the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The capital is the city of Marawi, and it borders Lanao del Norte to the north, Bukidnon to the east, and Maguindanao and Cotabato to the south. To the southwest lies Illana Bay, an arm of the Moro Gulf.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was an autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines, that consisted of five predominantly Muslim provinces: Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. It was the only region that had its own government. The region's de facto seat of government was Cotabato City, although this self-governing city was outside its jurisdiction.
Marawi, officially the Islamic City of Marawi, is a 4th class component city and capital of the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 201,785 people.
Islam is the first-recorded monotheistic religion in the Philippines. Islam reached the Philippines in the 13th century with the arrival of Muslim traders from the Persian Gulf, Southern India, and their followers from several sultanate governments in the Malay Archipelago. The Muslim population of the Philippines has been reported as about 6% of the total population as of a census in 2000. According to a 2015 report of Philippine Statistics Authority, 6% of Filipinos are Muslims. While the majority of the population are Catholics, some ethnic groups are Hindus, Buddhists, Animists, Sikhs, or non-religious.
The Maranao people, also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is the term used by the Philippine government to refer to the southern indigenous people who are the "people of the lake", a predominantly-Muslim Lanao province region of the Philippine island of Mindanao. They are known for their artwork, weaving, wood, plastic and metal crafts and epic literature, the Darangen. They are ethnically and culturally closely related to the Iranun, and Maguindanao, all three groups being denoted as speaking Danao languages and giving name to the island of Mindanao.
The collective term Moro people or Bangsamoro people refers to the 13 Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro. As Muslim-majority ethnic groups, they form the largest non-Christian majority population in the Philippines, and comprise about 5% of the country's total population, or 5 million people.
Haroun al-Rashid Lucman was a Filipino legislator, journalist, World War II guerilla hero, and an early proponent of Moro independence or autonomy. As Congressman of Lanao del Sur, he is best remembered for calling for the impeachment of Ferdinand Marcos 1968 because of the President's role in the Jabidah Massacre, in which government troops massaccred Tausug 68 Military trainees. When the congress could not muster enough support for the impeachment, Lucman grew convinced that Muslim Mindanao needed to become independent, and founded the Bangsamoro Liberation Organization (BMLO), which later joined forces with the Moro National Liberation Front.
Datu Yusoph Boyog Mama is a Filipino politician and government official. He was a candidate for public office as Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Regional Governor in the previous 2013 Mid-term Elections, being the lone candidate representing the province of Lanao del Sur, one of the five (5) provinces constituting the ARMM territory. With the support of various key multi-sectoral groups in the province of Lanao del Sur and the provincial capital Islamic City of Marawi, Datu Yusoph B. Mama ran as an independent candidate.
The Bangsamoro, officially the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or BARMM, is an autonomous region located in the southern Philippines.
Ahod Balawag Ebrahim better known as Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim is a Moro Filipino politician and rebel leader currently serving as the first and interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The Bangsamoro are a majority-Muslim ethnic group occupying a range of territories across the southern portions of the Republic of the Philippines. On three occasions, a short-lived and unrecognized Bangsamoro state independent of the Philippines has been formally declared by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). The first declaration was issued in 1974, amid the Moro conflict. Bangsamoro Land would be declared in 2012. In 2013, the United Federated States of Bangsamoro Republik was declared.
The Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL),, Republic Act No. 11054, also known as the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and by its full title as the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, is a Philippine law which provided for the establishment of the autonomous political entity known as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, replacing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Datu Abul Khayr Dangcal Alonto was a Filipino businessman and politician. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte in September 2016 as the chairperson of the Mindanao Development Authority, serving as its first Muslim chair until his death in May 2019.
The Battle of Marawi, also known as the Siege of Marawi and the Marawi crisis, was a five-month-long armed conflict in Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Philippines, that started on May 23, 2017, between Philippine government security forces and militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including the Maute and Abu Sayyaf Salafi jihadist groups. The battle also became the longest urban battle in the modern history of the Philippines.
Mohammad Ibrahim Saaduddin, better known as Moh Saaduddin, was a peace activist and a Maranao journalist writing for The Manila Times and an outstanding regional newsman of Mindanao Examiner in the Philippines. He wrote about current events and positive developments in Mindanao, particularly in Maguindanao province from 2014 to 2018. He authored investigative reports about events relating to the Daesh-Inspired group in the southern Philippines known as the Maute group in Lanao del Sur, Philippines. He was also a provincial information officer of the Province of Maguindanao last October 8, 2019.
Saaduddin A. Alauya is a Maranao lawyer, Aleem or Ulama, elected vice-governor of Lanao del Sur in the Philippines in 1989 and has served the province of Lanao del Sur as an acting governor from 1992 to 1995. He was appointed as chairman of the Code of Commission on Muslim Laws in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on March 1994. He then appointed by Former President Fidel V. Ramos as Jurisconsult in Islamic Law of the Philippines serving from August 1996 to August 2015.
Basher Dimalaang Manalao or known to be Mostaqbal, a Maranao people, Islamic preacher and was elected vice-governor then succeeded by law the governor of Lanao del Sur in the Philippines following the death of former governor Mamintal Adiong Sr. in 2004. He took his Islamic degree at King Saud University.
1BANGSA is shortened word of non-profit organization in the Philippines known as One Bangsamoro Movement, Inc., a group of multi-sectoral leaders and activists in the Philippines advocating peace and unity among Filipinos as well as Bangsamoro people. It was led by Maulana “Alan” A. Balangi, a Maranao.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangsamoro is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus reached the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on March 11, 2020, when the first case of the disease was confirmed in Lanao del Sur. Cases has been confirmed in Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, and the independent city of Cotabato.
Ahmad Domocao "Domie" A. Alonto was a Muslim-Filipino lawyer, educator, author, traditional leader, and Islamic figure from Lanao del Sur.
