Sangirese

Masade, called Old Islam by outsiders, is a religion of the Sangihe Islands between Sulawesi and Mindanao. It grew out of the first spread of Islam in the archipelago, brought in the fifteenth century by an Arab named Maulana Moe'min with the support of Lamauge, a Muslim kingdom subject to Tabukan.

Under King Samangsialang there arose an imam known as Mawu Masade, who gave the faith its name. Its practice kept its own forms: prayer was held once a week, on Friday, with the imam standing among worshippers seated in a circle, and the rite called Diko'u Soro was held three days before the end of Ramadan.

In the following centuries the Sangihe Islands came under Ternate in the sixteenth century. Spanish rule followed, and from 1677 Dutch rule.