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Peace process · book
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A Maranao scholar’s reading of the conflict in the South and of what peace between its peoples would take, from the Silsilah Dialogue Movement.
Nagasura T. Madale, a Maranao scholar, wrote the title essays of this book with other contributors. Its full title is Possibilities for Peace in Southern Philippines: The Islamic Concept of Peace and Other Essays. It was published in Zamboanga City by Silsilah Publications, the press of the Silsilah Dialogue Movement, which works for dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Library records date it to about 1990 or 1991. The essays take up the Islamic idea of peace and what peace between the peoples of the South would require, and include references.
From catalog.hathitrust.org, tuklas.up.edu.ph, openlibrary.org.
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