Sultan Tupas (Maharlika Timeline)

Sultan Mohammad Anak Raja Zafaruddin Anak Hidayatullah Anak Azim Tupas Anak Seri Lumay (Jawi: سلطان محمد انق راج زافروددين انق هداية الله انق ازيم توڤس انق سري لومي), also known by his Arabic name Mohammad ibn Za'far al-Din ibn Hidayatullah ibn Azim ibn Karim Tupas (Arabic: محمد بن ظفر الدين بن هداية الله بن عظيم بن كريم طوباس) was the 20th Rajah and the 1st Sultan of Sugbu.

Descended from the Sri Lumay dynasty, Mohammad Tupas succeeded his father Rajah Zafar Tupas, or Rajah Tupas III as the Rajah of Sugbo. However, the rajahnate, as well as the Islamic western parts of the northern Malay Archipelago had been decimated by decades upon decades of war against the Spanish Empire.

Seeing as to how the natives fared under British rule, Mohammad Tupas called for British, Dutch and Portuguese aid. Eventually, the British Empire got the hand of Mohammad Tupas, the Spaniards attempted to set up a naval blockade, to no avail.

Upon greeting the rajah, the British gave him the title Sultan, as the British also transported many people from their Middle Eastern, Malayan and Indian territories. Arab Islamic clerics taught the rajah proper Arabic, and were hired by the Brits to teach Arabic to the Visayan natives.