Cesar Adib Majul

born 1923 · died 2003

Cesar Adib Majul was a Philippine historian best known for his work on the history of Islam in the Philippines, and on the life of Apolinario Mabini.

2 books on the shelf

1973In print
Muslims in the Philippines
Cesar Adib Majul
University of the Philippines Press
The standard history of the Muslim peoples of the Philippines: the coming of Islam, the sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao, and three centuries of Spanish wars against them, told from the Moro side of the record. Reissued by the University of the Philippines Press in 1999.
1985Out of print
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the Philippines
Cesar Adib Majul
Mizan Press
Majul’s short account of the Moro struggle of the 1970s and the rise of the Moro National Liberation Front, written for readers abroad.

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