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Library · Bangsamoro
The books
219 books about the Bangsamoro and its peoples, with where each can be bought, borrowed or read free.
25 books on islam and religion · clear
2023Free to read
Empowering Madaris in the BARMM through Public Policy and Regional Autonomy to Help Prevent and Counter Violent ExtremismInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
Institute for Autonomy and Governance
A study of how vulnerable or resilient the madrasah system is to violent extremism, and where it is heading in the Philippines. It weighs how public policy and the BARMM's regional autonomy can support madrasah development.
2022Free to read
Youth Vulnerability to Violent ExtremismInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
Institute for Autonomy and Governance
A follow-up to IAG's 2017 study that tracks how urban Bangsamoro youth's views and attitudes toward violent extremism have changed. It adds the views of young people living in conflict-affected rural areas of the BARMM.
2021Free to read
Balik-Islam in the PhilippinesInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
Institute for Autonomy and Governance
A study, done with the UP Institute of Islamic Studies, of Filipinos who convert or 'revert' to Islam, building a profile of converts and their reasons for conversion. It also gathers Muslim and non-Muslim opinions on Islam and looks at converts' links to violent extremist groups.
2019Free to read
Research on Traditional Madaris in ARMM and Adjacent RegionsInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
Institute for Autonomy and Governance
A baseline study of the traditional madrasah system in the ARMM and nearby regions, funded by the Australian Government. It gathers data meant to guide public policy on traditional madaris and on the education system of the new BARMM.
2019Out of print
25 KhutbahNational Ulama Conference of the Philippines
National Ulama Conference of the Philippines
25 Friday sermons written by 25 ulama from across Mindanao who trained at universities in Muslim countries. The sermons, in Arabic with an English translation, are meant as supplementary material for those who deliver the khutbah.
2017Free to read
Research on Youth Vulnerability to Violent Extremism in the Autonomous Region in Muslim MindanaoInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
Institute for Autonomy and Governance
A survey-based study, done with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, of how vulnerable young people in the ARMM are to violent extremism. It aims to give government agencies and communities an early picture to shape their response.
2012Out of print
The Qur’an and Islamic Manuscripts of Mindanaoeds. 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.
2011Out of print
Fields of HopeRoberto 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.
2010Out of print
Noor-us SalamPhilippine Council for Islam and Democracy
Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy
Proceedings of a 4-day regional conference in Davao City of Muslim women working for peace. It records the talks and discussions on women's roles in peacebuilding in Mindanao.
2008Out of print
Islamic Model for Peace EducationThe Asia Foundation
The Asia Foundation
A peace-education resource that grounds lessons on peace in Islamic teaching, for use in Muslim communities and madaris. It has articles in English and some in Arabic.
2006Self-published
Tunggal Hulaĥ-Duwa SaraĥMashur 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.
2005In print
Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational PolicyJeffrey 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.
2004Out of print
Human Rights Treatise on Women, Islam, and DemocracyAteneo Human Rights Center
Ateneo Human Rights Center
A study of the rights and legal status of Muslim women in Mindanao, set against Islam and Philippine democracy. It looks at women's rights in Islamic law and in Philippine practice.
2003Out of print
In War, the Real Enemy Is War ItselfRoberto 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.
2002Out of print
MapagpakamalinawonKarl 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.
2000Out of print
The Moro Rebellion and the Search for PeaceHilario M. Gomez Jr.
Silsilah Dialogue Movement
The conflict read as a problem of relations between Christians and Muslims, from the Silsilah Dialogue Movement in Zamboanga.
1998Out of print
Journeying Together towards a Culture of Peace in MindanaoBishops-Ulama Forum
Bishops-Ulama Forum
A report on the first 2 years of the Bishops-Ulama Forum, which brought Catholic bishops and Muslim religious leaders together after the 1996 peace agreement. It records their dialogues and joint work for Muslim–Christian peace.
1993Out of print
Philippine Muslim-Christian Dialogueeds. Leonardo N. Mercado, SVD and Maxwell Felicilda
Divine Word Publications
Essays on what dialogue between Muslims and Christians in the Philippines has been and could be, edited by the philosopher-priest Leonardo Mercado with Maxwell Felicilda.
1992Out of print
A Madrasah General Education Program for Muslim MindanaoLolita Junio Damonsong Rodriguez
Mindanao State University
A proposal, from an MSU educator, for a madrasah curriculum that could be recognised by the state, decades before the ALIVE programme.
1991Out of print
Liberalism and the Quest for Islamic Identity in the PhilippinesKenneth E. Bauzon
Ateneo de Manila University Press
How the liberal state and the Moro search for an Islamic political identity have failed to meet, by a Filipino political scientist.
1991Out of print
Possibilities for Peace in Southern PhilippinesNagasura 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.
1988Out of print
Understanding Islam and Muslims in the Philippinesed. Peter G. Gowing
New Day Publishers
Essays on Islam as it is lived in the Philippines, collected and edited by Peter Gowing.
1985Out of print
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
Mizan Press
Majul’s short account of the Moro struggle of the 1970s and the rise of the Moro National Liberation Front, written for readers abroad.
1979Out of print
Muslim Filipinos: Heritage and HorizonPeter G. Gowing
New Day Publishers
A general introduction to the Muslim peoples of the Philippines, their history, faith and institutions and their place in the republic, written for Filipino readers from the Dansalan Research Center in Marawi.
1905Free to read
Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionNajeeb M. Saleeby
Bureau of Public Printing, Manila
The first English account of Maguindanao’s genealogies and of the law codes and Islam of Maguindanao and Sulu, translated by an American colonial official who read the originals. Out of copyright and free to read.