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Revolt in Mindanao
The Rise of Islam in Philippine Politics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1980
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 294
- ISBN
- 9780195804607
- Availability
- Out of print
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About the book
A journalist’s account of the Moro revolt of the 1970s, the MNLF and the Marcos government’s war, written as it happened.
T. J. S. George, a journalist who was then editor of Asiaweek in Hong Kong, wrote this history of the Muslim separatist movement in the southern Philippines. Oxford University Press published it in Kuala Lumpur in 1980, while the war between the Marcos government and the Moro National Liberation Front was still going on.
The publisher presented it as the first attempt at a full history of the subject written for general readers rather than scholars. The book compares Spain and the United States as colonial rulers. It finds early Philippine leaders lacking in understanding of Islam and accuses Mindanao's traditional Muslim leaders of seeking their own advantage. It looks at episodes such as a politician's plan for a new sultanate in Sabah, a Christian army officer who posed as a Muslim in Sulu, and the secret army that ended in the Jabidah massacre. It also examines the part played by Arab countries.
George argues that the split between Muslims and Christians, and the divisions among Muslims, could be resolved, and that a settlement favouring Mindanao's Muslims was within reach.
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