Question for my TL about the Philippines

1. Before the Spanish came, the Bruneians and other Malay missionaries(and perhaps Demak) are active in Northern Luzon and made the inhabitants of the coastal areas at least nominal muslims, since these nominal muslims interact with the Japanese traders how will that effect the Japanese themselves, writing about the Maguindanao's interactions will be easy since we know it in OTL, we don't know what would be the behavior of the Muslims in Northern Luzon like the Muslim Kapampangans with the Japanese traders and I know that Demak and Mataram might get interested to vassalize their sultanate and might have designs in OTL.

2. Would the Missionaries that converted Northern Luzon stop in Northern Luzon, would they prosetylize in Ryukyu.
 
1. Before the Spanish came, the Bruneians and other Malay missionaries(and perhaps Demak) are active in Northern Luzon and made the inhabitants of the coastal areas at least nominal muslims, since these nominal muslims interact with the Japanese traders how will that effect the Japanese themselves, writing about the Maguindanao's interactions will be easy since we know it in OTL, we don't know what would be the behavior of the Muslims in Northern Luzon like the Muslim Kapampangans with the Japanese traders and I know that Demak and Mataram might get interested to vassalize their sultanate and might have designs in OTL.

2. Would the Missionaries that converted Northern Luzon stop in Northern Luzon, would they prosetylize in Ryukyu.

1. Hard to say. Islam isn't generally treated with as much hositility by East Asians as Christianity had back in the day. I feel it has a lot to do the way it's spread, and how religious authority interacts with the locals. As I've said in the few threads you brought up on the subject, which I've lost count, Islam wasn't spread by the sword as it had in the Middle East and Europe. Moreover, local imams don't demand their followers to follow the caliph, first and foremost (IIRC), and were generally amicable to subordination to the local kings or emperors. Also, Islam was, and still is pretty syncretic with local Hindu-Buddhist traditions in the Malay archipelago, and suggested to be compatible with Chinese Confucianism by Muslim Chinese scholars at the time. In stark contrast, Christianity, or at least Catholicism, demands subordination to the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and while the Jesuits did find a lot of success in Japan and China by syncretising, the inflexible doctrines of the Papacy regarding accepting local traditions (i.e. reject without compromise), and the general warlike attitude of the Iberians towards everything non-Catholic didn't help their cause. Honestly, Islam won't spread that rapidly in Japan, mainly because the aim of any Muslim travelling to Japan isn't to spread the faith, but to make money. If you need a gauge at its effects, just look at China, though you'd have to scale down the population quite a lot.

2. They can try, but to be honest, I don't see many risking their necks for such few converts.
 
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