Question

Base on the traditional and modern historical approaches of study, can you say that Lapu-Lapu

was a Muslim? How true are the claims of the modern social media influencers?

Answer 1

It is strongly suggested that he was an adherent of the indigenous animistic anito beliefs. The inhabitants of the Sulu Archipelago believe that Qadi Lapulapu was a Muslim belonging to the Tausūg or the Sama-Bajau people of Mindanao, a claim made by the now-dissolved Sultanate of Sulu that many historians negate.