The books

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.

2018Free to read

Congress of the Philippines

Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines

The law, signed on 26 July 2018 and ratified in January 2019, that created the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and its parliamentary government. Free to read at the Lawphil Project.

2014Free to read

Government of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity

The peace agreement signed in Malacañang on 27 March 2014 between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, with its annexes on transition, revenue, power sharing and normalisation. Free to read.

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.

2010Free to read

Soliman M. Santos Jr. and Paz Verdades M. Santos

Small Arms Survey

Profiles of 14 armed groups in the Philippines, the communist and Moro fronts, the Abu Sayyaf and the clan militias among them, with what is known of their arms and their effect on the people around them. Free to read.

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.

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.

2003Out of print

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

A three-way wordlist from the Commission on the Filipino Language.

1986Out of print

Robert E. Sullivan, OMI

Notre Dame University

The fullest Maguindanaon dictionary, by an Oblate missionary at Notre Dame University in Cotabato City.

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.

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.