The books

2024Free to read

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

Writings by the founder of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies on the Bangsamoro’s road to self-determination: its history, the law and politics of the peace process, and what it means for peacebuilding elsewhere. Published for the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.

2023Free to read

Benedicto R. Bacani, Norma Tillo-Gomez, Ofelia Durante and others

Institute for Autonomy and Governance

An assessment of how the national plan against violent extremism is being carried out in the 5 provinces of the BARMM. It draws on interviews with 50 officials, 10 focus groups with 78 community leaders and a survey of 150 programme beneficiaries.

2020Self-published

Abdulaziz H. Hamsain

Blurb

Tausug dishes from a home cook, printed on demand: tiyula itum, pastil, satti and the rest.

2019Out of print

Macapado A. Muslim

Saniata Publications

A reading of the Bangsamoro Organic Law and the government it creates, by a former president of Mindanao State University.

2018Out of print

eds. Jaime An Lim, Christine Godinez-Ortega and Ricardo M. de Ungria

Far Eastern University Publications

An anthology of writing from Mindanao this century, edited at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, with Moro writers among its contributors, Calbi A. Asain’s story “Hegira” among them.

2018Free to read

Salah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

The speeches of the MILF’s chief negotiator from 2005 to 2018, which follow the peace process with the government through the eyes of the Front.

2017Self-published

Nosca Khalid

Independently published

An episode of the Maranao epic retold in English by a Maranao author and published independently.

2017Free to read

Alfredo Ferrariz Lubang

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

A community survey on what trust means to people living with the government–MILF peace accords, what builds it and what wears it down, with advice for the parties and those carrying the accords out.

2016Free to read

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

The stories of almost 300 Bangsamoro men and women, from Maguindanao, the Lanao provinces, the Zamboanga peninsula, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, of decades of conflict and their hopes after the 2014 peace agreement.

2014Free to read

Ebrahim F. Ampuan and Juwairiya U. Lingga

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

What the Subanen, an indigenous people of the Zamboanga peninsula who are not Muslim, thought of the Bangsamoro entity then being negotiated, and what they asked of it.

2013Free to read

Abubakar Datumanong, Parido Rahman Pigkaulan, Maguid Makalingkang and others

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

Four ways Moro communities settle disputes and feuds by custom, set out by researchers from those communities, with the case for building them into the formal justice system.

2013Out of print

ed. Benedicto R. Bacani

Institute for Autonomy and Governance

A 326-page collection published a year after the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, on the move from the ARMM to a new Bangsamoro political entity. Edited by IAG founder Benedicto Bacani, with contributions including Peter Koeppinger, Crisanto Cayon and Kathleen Geslani.

2012Out of print

eds. Midori Kawashima and Tirmizy E. Abdullah

Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University

A study of handwritten Qur’ans, prayer books and kitabs kept by families in Lanao, with what they show of how Islam was learned and copied in the region.

2012Out of print

Michael O. Mastura

Research and Education for Peace, Universiti Sains Malaysia

The government–MILF talks from February 1997 to June 2010, told by a Maguindanaon historian and lawyer who sat on the Front’s peace panel.

2012Out of print

Aida Rivera-Ford

C & E Publishing

Aida Rivera-Ford’s stories, essays and other writing gathered in one volume late in her long life in Davao.

2011In print

Wilma A. Amil

Dunwoody Press

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

2011Out of print

Patricio P. Diaz

MindaNews

A long account of the talks between the government and the MILF, by a veteran Cotabato journalist who followed them from the start.

2011Out of print

Roberto C. Layson

MindaNews

Stories from Pikit, Cotabato, where the author served as parish priest, of Muslims and Christians rebuilding trust after war. It draws on years of interfaith and peacebuilding work in a town hit hard by war.

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.

2009Out of print

eds. Kamarulzaman Askandar and Ayesah Abubakar

Research and Education for Peace, Universiti Sains Malaysia

A second collection from the Penang peace programme, on the talks, the ceasefire and civil society’s part in them.

2009In print

Almahdi G. Alonto

Dunwoody Press

Conversational Maranao in dialogues and drills.

2007Out of print

Salah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

The talks between the government and the MILF from 1997 to the eve of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, from inside the Front’s panel.

2007Out of print

ed. Amina Rasul-Bernardo

Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy

Ten years after the agreement with the MNLF, what was delivered and what was not, in studies commissioned by the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.

2007Out of print

ed. Gutierrez Mangansakan II

Anvil Publishing

Essays by young Moro writers from across the region, the first anthology of its kind, edited by a Maguindanaon filmmaker.

2006Self-published

Mashur Bin-Ghalib Jundam

Published by the author

How Tausug custom and Islamic law live together in one society, by a Tausug scholar of the University of the Philippines.

2005Out of print

Samuel K. Tan

National Historical Commission of the Philippines

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.

2005Out of print

eds. Kamarulzaman Askandar and Ayesah Abubakar

Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network

Papers from the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network on the roots of the conflict and the peace process to 2005.

2004Out of print

Benedicto R. Bacani

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Philippines

A study of why Muslim autonomy in the southern Philippines has stayed largely 'on paper', and what real self-rule for the ARMM would require. It includes the text of the 1976 Tripoli Agreement.

2003Out of print

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks

Mindanao’s history for the general reader, in questions and short answers: who was here first, how the settlers came, where the conflict began.

2003Self-published

Clemencio M. Bascar

Published by the author

A Zamboanga writer’s history of the Sulu Sultanate as a state that was never conquered, printed by the author.

2003Out of print

Amina Rasul-Bernardo

Asian Institute of Management

Moro voices on the conflict and what peace would take, gathered for the Asian Institute of Management by a Tausug former cabinet member.

2003Out of print

Patricio P. Diaz

MindaNews

A veteran Cotabato journalist’s columns on the conflict and the peace talks, collected: forty years of watching from close up.

2003Out of print

Jennifer Saipudin Nandu

De La Salle University Publishing House

Interviews with divorced Tausug women on marriage, separation and what the law and the community allowed them.

2003Out of print

Abraham P. Sakili

UP Asian Center

Moro art, architecture and ornament read for the ideas of space and self behind them, by a Tausug art historian.

2003Out of print

Antonio R. Enriquez

Giraffe Books

A novella named for the town of Sumisip in Basilan, with four short stories.

2003Out of print

Roberto C. Layson

Initiatives for International Dialogue

Reflections by the Oblate parish priest of Pikit, Cotabato, a town repeatedly caught in fighting between the army and the MILF. Drawing on what war did to Muslim and Christian villagers there, it argues that war itself is the enemy.

2002Self-published

Ben J. Kadil

Published by the author

A Moro teacher’s history of the peoples of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, written as a textbook and printed by the author.

2002Out of print

Federico V. Magdalena

Mindanao State University

Essays on the history of the Moro South, the title essay on the 1902 battle in which American troops stormed the Maranao forts at Bayang, Lanao.

2002Out of print

Karl M. Gaspar, Elpidio A. Lapad and Ailynne J. Maravillas

Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao

A reader for peace workers on Mindanao's history, ethnic relations and Muslim–Christian relations. It was written for Mindanao peace advocates and co-published with Catholic Relief Services.

2001Out of print

Nagasura T. Madale

National Commission for Culture and the Arts

Stories of the lake and essays on Maranao life by a Maranao anthropologist.

2001Out of print

Calbi A. Asain

De La Salle University Publishing House

Stories of Tausug life in Sulu by a Tausug writer of fiction, from De La Salle University Press.

2001Out of print

Salamat Hashim

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Writings by the founding chairman of the MILF on the Bangsamoro struggle against oppression and colonial rule. It sets out the MILF's case for Bangsamoro self-determination.

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.

2000Out of print

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao

The twenty-one years of talks between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front, from Jeddah to the 1996 Final Peace Agreement, by a historian who sat on the government panel.

1999Out of print

Jamail A. Kamlian

MSU–Iligan Institute of Technology

Readings on the Moro peoples’ history, society and culture assembled for the peace studies programme at MSU-Iligan.

1997Out of print

Abdullah T. Madale

Rex Book Store

A general account of the Maranao for students and the curious: history, social ranks, arts, beliefs and daily life around Lake Lanao.

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.

1997Self-published

Ernesto M. Espaldon

Published by the author

The Tausug guerrillas who fought the Japanese in Sulu, told by a physician who was the youngest commander in the Sulu Area Command in 1945.

1996Out of print

Abdullah T. Madale

Rex Book Store

The torogan, the carved house of the Maranao datu, its building, its okir and the rank it proclaimed.

1996Out of print

Antonio R. Enriquez

Giraffe Books

Stories of Mindanao’s wars and the people who live through them, by the Zamboanga novelist.

1995Self-published

Nasser A. Marohomsalic

Published by the author

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

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao

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.

1994Out of print

Macapado A. Muslim

Mindanao State University

A Maranao political scientist’s case, made in the early 1990s, that autonomy won by politics could answer what the armed struggle had not.

1993Out of print

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Minority Rights Group

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.

1993Out of print

Samuel K. Tan

UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies

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.

1993Out of print

Batua A. Macaraya

Mindanao State University

The old literary Maranao of the darangen and the bayok, glossed by the Maranao scholar who co-wrote the dictionary.

1991Out of print

Nagasura T. Madale

Silsilah Dialogue Movement

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.

1990Out of print

Esmail R. Disoma

Mindanao State University

A Maranao sociologist’s survey of his people’s customs and beliefs, from birth to burial.

1989Out of print

Samuel K. Tan

University of the Philippines Press

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.

1989Out of print

Norma Abubakar Abdulla

Centro Escolar University

Tausug cooking and what it says of Tausug life: the dishes, the occasions and the manners of the table, with recipes.

1986Out of print

Mamitua Saber

Mindanao State University

The Spanish assault on the Maranao kotas at Marawi in 1895, from Spanish accounts and Maranao memory, by the Maranao sociologist who founded the university’s research centre.

1985Out of print

Mig Alvarez Enriquez

New Day Publishers

Stories by the Zamboanga writer. In the title story a Moro man, Alih, and his brother Omar plan to attack a crowd celebrating an American holiday, and Alih turns on his brother to stop him.

1984Out of print

Salah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)

IQ Marin

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s own history of the Bangsamoro, from the sultanates through colonial rule to the MNLF and the MILF, written by its chief negotiator under a pen name. The third edition of 1999 is the one usually cited.

1984Out of print

Michael O. Mastura

Ministry of Muslim Affairs

Early essays by Mastura on Moro history, law and politics, from the years before he entered Congress.

1983Out of print

Mig Alvarez Enriquez

New Day Publishers

Three epic heroes put on stage, among them Bantugan, the hero of the Maranao Darangen.

1981Out of print

Antonio R. Enriquez

University of Queensland Press

Enriquez’s first novel, set among land surveyors in the Liguasan Marsh of Maguindanao, country he knew as a young man. First published in Australia, it was reissued in the Philippines in 2003 as Green Sanctuary.

1981Out of print

ed. Nagasura T. Madale

Alemar-Phoenix Publishing House

A reader of essays on the history, faiths and cultures of the Muslim peoples of the Philippines, edited by the Maranao anthropologist.

1977Out of print

Samuel K. Tan

Filipinas Foundation

The Moro revolts from the American conquest to the eve of martial law, by the historian who would lead the National Historical Institute.

1975Out of print

eds. Mamitua Saber and Abdullah T. Madale

Solidaridad Publishing House

Essays by Maranao scholars on their own people: the sultanates, the torogan, the darangen, marriage, law and the lake.

1975Out of print

Irene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley and Mary L. Ashley

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Philippines

The standard Tausug–English dictionary, from the Summer Institute of Linguistics; second edition 1994.

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.