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Marawi City · since 1961

The state university founded in 1961 to bring Muslim Mindanao into the national system; its University Research Center, Folklore Division and Mamitua Saber Research Center published the Darangen and much of the first scholarship by Maranao and Tausug writers.

1980Out of print
Thirteen Tausug FolktalesMindanao State University, University Research Center
Tausug tales collected and translated by the university’s research centre.
1986Out of print
Battle of Marawi, 1895Mamitua Saber
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.

1986Out of print
DarangenMindanao State University, Folklore Division
The Maranao epic of Bantugan and the kingdom of Bembaran, sung for centuries around Lake Lanao, transcribed and translated in eight volumes by Mindanao State University; inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as a masterpiece of oral heritage.

1988Out of print
Selected Essays on Mindanao Art and CultureJuan R. Francisco
Essays on the Indian and Islamic strands in Mindanao’s arts and epics, by a scholar of Sanskrit in the Philippines.
1990Out of print
The MeranaoEsmail R. Disoma
A Maranao sociologist’s survey of his people’s customs and beliefs, from birth to burial.
1992Out of print
A Madrasah General Education Program for Muslim MindanaoLolita Junio Damonsong Rodriguez
A proposal, from an MSU educator, for a madrasah curriculum that could be recognised by the state, decades before the ALIVE programme.
1993Out of print
Lexicon of Classical Literary Maranao Words and PhrasesBatua A. Macaraya
The old literary Maranao of the darangen and the bayok, glossed by the Maranao scholar who co-wrote the dictionary.

1994Out of print
The Moro Armed Struggle in the PhilippinesMacapado A. Muslim
A Maranao political scientist’s case, made in the early 1990s, that autonomy won by politics could answer what the armed struggle had not.
2002Out of print
The Battle of Bayang and Other Essays on MorolandFederico V. Magdalena
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.