The books

2022In print

Thomas M. McKenna

Armin Lear Press

The Moro guerrillas of Cotabato and Lanao in the Second World War, led by Edward Kuder’s foster son Mohammad Adil and the American schoolteacher himself, pieced together from their papers and the memories of those who fought.

2020In print

Ronald K. Edgerton

University Press of Kentucky

Pershing’s years among the Maranao and in Sulu, as a captain at Lake Lanao and as governor of the Moro Province, and the mix of diplomacy and force he learned there.

2020In print

Oliver Charbonneau

Cornell University Press

The American project in the Moro South set against the other colonial empires of its day, and the Moros’ own uses of it, from the archives of three continents.

2020In print

Miriam Coronel-Ferrer

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

How the Moro and Cordillera movements each made a homeland out of a region, and adapted their claims to the state they fought, compared.

2020In print

Carmela Fonbuena

Journalism for Nation Building Foundation

The five-month battle for Marawi in 2017, from the soldiers, hostages, residents, officials and former fighters who lived it, by a defence journalist who covered it day by day.

2020In print

Criselda Yabes

Pawikan Press

The siege of Marawi as the people who fought it and lived through it remember it, by a journalist who has followed the military in Mindanao for thirty years.

2020In print

Rommel C. Banlaoi

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Islamic State-aligned groups that took Marawi, what became of them afterwards, and the threat they still pose, by a Philippine security analyst.

2019In print

Simeon Dumdum Jr.

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Poems by a Cebuano poet and retired judge, the title poem among them written on the siege of Marawi.

2018In print

Rey Luis Adeva Montesclaros

New Day Publishers

The Spanish campaigns against the Maranao in the 1890s, set against the revolution that broke out in Luzon at the same time.

2016In print

ed. Paul D. Hutchcroft

Anvil Publishing

Scholars on the peace process as it stood after the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro: the deal, the economy, the clans, the law, and what would be needed to make the Bangsamoro work.

2014In print

Francisco J. Lara Jr.

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Why the conflict keeps returning: the clans, the rebel fronts and the state as rival sources of authority in Muslim Mindanao, and the shadow economy that sustains all three.

2013In print

Michael C. Hawkins

Northern Illinois University Press

How the American officers who ruled the Moro Province wrote its people into a story of savagery and progress, and used that story to govern.

2013In print

Miriam Coronel-Ferrer

University of the Philippines Press

Essays written across two decades of the Philippine peace processes, with the Moro fronts and with the communists, by the scholar who would chair the panel that signed the Comprehensive Agreement.

2012In print

Tom Stern

Anvil Publishing

The life of the founder of the Moro National Liberation Front, from Jolo and the University of the Philippines to Tripoli, Jeddah and the ARMM governorship, written with his cooperation.

2011In print

James R. Arnold

Bloomsbury Publishing

The American campaigns against the Moros under Wood, Bliss and Pershing, from Bud Dajo to Bud Bagsak, as a military history for the general reader.

2011In print

Lino Miani

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

The trade in guns across the Sulu and Celebes seas, who sells, who buys and what the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia have done about it.

2011In print

Criselda Yabes

Anvil Publishing

Years on the road with the army in Mindanao and Sulu, and the soldiers who found themselves building schools as often as fighting.

2011In print

Wilma A. Amil

Dunwoody Press

Graded Tausug texts with glossaries, for learners who have the grammar.

2010In print

Patricio N. Abinales

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.

2010In print

Samuel K. Tan

University of the Philippines Press

Tan’s later essays on the history and historiography of the Muslim South, collected at the end of his career.

2010In print

Criselda Yabes

University of the Philippines Press

A novel of Sulu in the 1970s, of a Tausug family and the war that came to Jolo. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the UP Centennial Literary Prize.

2010In print

ed. Gerard Rixhon

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Tausug epics, tales, songs and sayings recorded over forty years in Sulu, with translations, from the founder of the journal Sulu Studies.

2009In print

Jason William Lobel

Dunwoody Press

Maranao texts, from news to folktales, with glossaries and notes for learners.

2009In print

Almahdi G. Alonto

Dunwoody Press

Conversational Maranao in dialogues and drills.

2009In print

Ruth Stickney

Dunwoody Press

A grammar sketch of Maguindanaon for learners.

2008In print

Ronald K. Edgerton

Ateneo de Manila University Press

A hundred years in the Bukidnon–Lanao borderlands, where Maranao, Lumad, settlers and the state met and sometimes made terms.

2007In print

Shinzo Hayase

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Maguindanao, Sangir and Bagobo as peoples of one sea rather than of two countries, in a history that crosses the border with Indonesia the way they did.

2007In print

Robert A. Fulton

Tumalo Creek Press

The first years of the American occupation of the Moro country, from Bates’s treaty with the Sultan of Sulu to Bud Dajo, told campaign by campaign from the army’s records.

2005In print

Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa

Ateneo de Manila University Press

The carved, woven and worked ornament of Sulu, ukkil, in a large illustrated study by the dancer and scholar who spent her life recording the archipelago’s arts.

2005In print

Carl R. Galvez Rubino

Dunwoody Press

A full course in Tausug grammar for the serious learner.

2005In print

Jeffrey Ayala Milligan

Palgrave Macmillan

Schools as a front in the Moro conflict: what public schooling meant to Muslim Filipinos, and what the madrasah offered instead. Second edition 2020.

2004In print

Miguel A. Bernad

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Essays on the exploration of Mindanao and the Christian missions there from the sixteenth century on, by a Jesuit historian who spent his later life in Cagayan de Oro.

2003In print

Gracia Burnham

Tyndale House Publishers

A year as a hostage of the Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of Basilan, by the American missionary whose husband was killed in the rescue that freed her.

2002In print

James Francis Warren

NUS Press

The Iranun and Balangingi raiders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the world economy that called their raiding into being, and how a way of life became an ethnic name.

2002In print

Moshe Yegar

Lexington Books

The Moros set beside the Malays of Patani and the Rohingya of Arakan: three Muslim minorities on the edges of Buddhist and Christian states, and the roads each took.

2001In print

Soliman M. Santos Jr.

University of the Philippines Press

Whether the Philippine Constitution can accommodate the Moro demand for self-rule, and what would have to change, by a human rights lawyer who worked the peace process for years.

2001In print

H. Arlo Nimmo

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Nimmo’s return to the Sama Dilaut three decades on: the full ethnography of a people who had by then mostly come ashore.

2000In print

Patricio N. Abinales

Ateneo de Manila University Press

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.

1997In print

Aida Rivera-Ford

University of the Philippines Press

Short stories by the Jolo-born writer best known for “The Chieftest Mourner”, still one of the most taught stories in Philippine classrooms, from the University of the Philippines Press.

1981In print

James Francis Warren

NUS Press

The Sulu Sultanate at its height as a trading state: the China trade in sea produce, the slave raiding that fed it, and the peoples it drew in, from Spanish, British and Dutch archives. The book that made the Sulu Zone a field of study. Second edition 2007.

1973In print

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.

1972In print

Thomas M. Kiefer

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

The classic ethnography of the Tausug of Jolo: feud, friendship, law and honour as they were lived in the 1960s. Kept in print by Waveland Press.

1967In print

Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

University of Hawaiʻi Press

The standard Maranao–English dictionary, compiled by an American linguist and a Maranao lexicographer.

1936In print

Vic Hurley

E. P. Dutton

A popular history of the Moros and their wars with Spain and the United States, by an American who had lived in Zamboanga; vivid, partisan and long the only book of its kind in English.