Looking At Brunei Through Spanish Eyes
THE GOLDEN LEGACY, THE BRUNEI TIMES 12 JUNE 2016 LOOKING AT BRUNEI THROUGH SPANISH EYES BY ROZAN YUNOS THIS week’s article continues on the narratives of the chapter on Brunei as written in the Boxer Codex. The Boxer Codex is a book written about Philippines and the surrounding region during the Spanish administration around the late 16th century. The Boxer Codex was found in 1947 by a British Historian named Professor Boxer. The Boxer Codex noted that the current Sultan of Brunei was Sultan Nur Alam, who used a different name when he was a prince, Sultan Rijal. The Codex also noted that Brunei had two different people, one was the Visayans, who were not Muslims and the other people was the people of the Islamic religion and these people were not originally from Brunei. According to the Boxer Codex, the Muslims in Brunei came originally with another ruler named Sultan Yusuf who originally came from Cavin, a city from the Mekah region around the late 12th century. Sultan Yusu...