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How the Moro cause reached the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Muslim world, and what the attention did to the movement at home. Revised 1995.
Historian Samuel K. Tan's study of the Moro secessionist movement looks at how the Bangsamoro struggle reached beyond the Philippines. A library abstract says it covers the movement's historical roots, its emergence as an organised movement in 1968, its different names and divisions, and its strengths and weaknesses.
Tan notes that the secessionist idea counts all the people of Mindanao as part of the Bangsamoro. The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies and the University of the Philippines Press published the book in 1993. A revised edition followed in 2003.
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1977Out of print
The Filipino Muslim Armed Struggle, 1900–1972Samuel K. Tan
The Moro revolts from the American conquest to the eve of martial law, by the historian who would lead the National Historical Institute.
1989Out of print
Decolonization and Filipino Muslim IdentitySamuel K. Tan
What decolonisation meant for a people who did not see the republic as their own, and how a Filipino Muslim identity was argued over in the decades after independence.

2005Out of print
Surat SugSamuel K. Tan
The Sulu Sultanate’s own correspondence in Jawi, transcribed and translated in two volumes: letters to Spain, Britain and its own datus from the last century of its independence.

2010In print
The Muslim South and BeyondSamuel K. Tan
Tan’s later essays on the history and historiography of the Muslim South, collected at the end of his career.
1985Out of print
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
Majul’s short account of the Moro struggle of the 1970s and the rise of the Moro National Liberation Front, written for readers abroad.

2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
How Cotabato and Davao were drawn into the Philippine state in the first half of the twentieth century, through the datus and settler elites who learned to work it, and what that made of Mindanao politics.

2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.
1995Self-published
Aristocrats of the Malay RaceNasser A. Marohomsalic
A history of the Moro peoples written from within, from the sultanates to the MNLF, by a Maranao lawyer; printed by the author and much cited in the region. Revised 2001.
1994Out of print
The Minoritization of the Indigenous Communities of Mindanao and the Sulu ArchipelagoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
How the Moro and Lumad peoples became minorities in their own homeland: the land laws, the resettlement programmes and the migration from Luzon and the Visayas, with the figures.
1993Out of print
The Lumad and Moro of MindanaoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
A short report for an international readership on the two peoples displaced by the settlement of Mindanao and the state of their claims in the early 1990s.
1996Out of print
Beyond the Cult of Dissidence in Southern Philippines and Wartorn Zones in the Global VillageArnold Molina Azurin
A Filipino anthropologist’s essays against the romance of rebellion, on the South and on war zones elsewhere.