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Library · Bangsamoro
A library of the Bangsamoro
Every book we have found about the Bangsamoro and its peoples, from the sultanates to the peace process, with who wrote and published each, where it can be bought, borrowed or read free, and the magazines the region’s own offices put out.
- 219
- Books on the shelf
- 173
- Authors, editors and translators
- 113
- Publishers, from university presses to the author’s own
- 54
- Free to read in full
Newest on the shelf
The most recent books, by year of first publication.
2026Out of print
Bangsamoro and the EverydayInstitute of Bangsamoro Studies
A collection of personal stories from inside the Bangsamoro revolution, launched in Cotabato City on 17 June 2026. Its premise is to tell stories that had to stay hidden while the movement was clandestine.
2024Free to read
Advancing Bangsamoro AspirationsAbhoud Syed M. Lingga
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.
2024Free to read
Setting BaselinesInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
A survey report on the voters of the BARMM ahead of its first regional parliamentary elections. It profiles likely voters, how ready they are for the polls, where they get news of political parties, and the issues that drive their choices.
2024Free to read
Beyond the NumbersWorld Bank
An edition of the World Bank's Philippines Economic Update whose special focus is poverty in the BARMM. It looks at how poverty in the region fell and what is needed to keep it falling.
2024Out of print
Transitional Justice in the BangsamoroforumZFD
A follow-up to a 2023 conference in which transitional justice experts and practitioners reflect on what has been done on justice and reconciliation in the Bangsamoro. It sets out what is still needed in the BARMM.
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
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.
2023Free to read
Research on the Implementation of the National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (NAP P/CVE) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim MindanaoBenedicto R. Bacani, Norma Tillo-Gomez, Ofelia Durante and others
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.
2023Free to read
Land Rights, Displacement, and Transitional Justice in the BangsamoroInitiatives for International Dialogue
A research report on land loss and displacement in Marawi City and Maguindanao, based on household-level mapping. It argues that land dispossession is a root cause of conflict in the Bangsamoro that transitional justice must address.
2022In print
Moro WarriorThomas M. McKenna
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.
2022Free to read
Youth Vulnerability to Violent ExtremismInstitute 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
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.
2020In print
American DatuRonald K. Edgerton
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.
Writers from home
Stories, poems, histories and studies of the Bangsamoro by 49 writers born in the region or elsewhere in Mindanao.
2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
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.
2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.
2003Out of print
A Story of Mindanao and Sulu in Question and AnswerB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
Mindanao’s history for the general reader, in questions and short answers: who was here first, how the settlers came, where the conflict began.
2005Out of print
Surat SugSamuel K. Tan
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.
2010In print
The Muslim South and BeyondSamuel K. Tan
Tan’s later essays on the history and historiography of the Muslim South, collected at the end of his career.
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.
2003Out of print
The Road to Peace and ReconciliationAmina Rasul-Bernardo
Moro voices on the conflict and what peace would take, gathered for the Asian Institute of Management by a Tausug former cabinet member.
2017Self-published
Abduction of Princess LawanenNosca Khalid
An episode of the Maranao epic retold in English by a Maranao author and published independently.
1967In print
A Maranao DictionaryHoward P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
The standard Maranao–English dictionary, compiled by an American linguist and a Maranao lexicographer.
1975Out of print
Tausug–English DictionaryIrene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley and Mary L. Ashley
The standard Tausug–English dictionary, from the Summer Institute of Linguistics; second edition 1994.
1997In print
Born in the Year 1900 and Other StoriesAida Rivera-Ford
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.
1981Out of print
Surveyors of the Liguasan MarshAntonio R. Enriquez
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.
War and conflict
63 books on this shelf.
1980Out of print
Revolt in MindanaoT. J. S. George
A journalist’s account of the Moro revolt of the 1970s, the MNLF and the Marcos government’s war, written as it happened.
1990Out of print
Muslim SeparatismW. K. Che Man
The Moro and Patani Malay movements side by side: their histories, their organisations and what each state did about them, in the first full comparison of the two.
2007In print
Moroland, 1899–1906Robert A. Fulton
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.
2011In print
The Moro WarJames R. Arnold
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.
2020In print
American DatuRonald K. Edgerton
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.
2008In print
People of the Middle GroundRonald K. Edgerton
A hundred years in the Bukidnon–Lanao borderlands, where Maranao, Lumad, settlers and the state met and sometimes made terms.
History
56 books on this shelf.
1973In print
Muslims in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
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.
1905Free to read
Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionNajeeb M. Saleeby
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.
1908Free to read
The History of SuluNajeeb M. Saleeby
Sulu from its earliest written genealogies to the American arrival, drawn from the sultanate’s own documents, Spanish records and the author’s years in Jolo. Out of copyright and free to read.
1977Out of print
Mandate in MorolandPeter G. Gowing
How the United States ruled the Moro Province and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, from the Bates Treaty to the start of Filipinization, from the records of the men who governed. Reprinted by New Day in 1983.
1981In print
The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898James Francis Warren
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.
2002In print
Iranun and BalangingiJames Francis Warren
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.
Politics and governance
51 books on this shelf.
2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
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.
2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.
1980Out of print
Revolt in MindanaoT. J. S. George
A journalist’s account of the Moro revolt of the 1970s, the MNLF and the Marcos government’s war, written as it happened.
1990Out of print
Muslim SeparatismW. K. Che Man
The Moro and Patani Malay movements side by side: their histories, their organisations and what each state did about them, in the first full comparison of the two.
2000Out of print
Under the Crescent MoonMarites Dañguilan Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria
Two journalists’ investigation of the MILF, the MNLF, the Abu Sayyaf and the Mindanao war at the turn of the century, from the camps and the back channels. The book most reporters on the region started with.
2004Free to read
The Moro ConflictEric U. Gutierrez and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
The argument that land, not religion, is at the root of the Moro conflict: how colonial and Philippine land policy dispossessed the Moros and why the peace deals have not touched it. Free to read.
Peace process
44 books on this shelf.
2003Out of print
The Road to Peace and ReconciliationAmina Rasul-Bernardo
Moro voices on the conflict and what peace would take, gathered for the Asian Institute of Management by a Tausug former cabinet member.
2016In print
Mindanaoed. Paul D. Hutchcroft
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.
2024Free to read
Advancing Bangsamoro AspirationsAbhoud Syed M. Lingga
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.
2016Free to read
Peace is for EveryoneAbhoud Syed M. Lingga
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.
2018Free to read
Negotiating PeaceSalah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)
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.
2017Free to read
Beyond the Peace TableTengku Abdul Ghafar
Malaysia’s facilitator of the government–MILF talks on how they reached the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in 2014, and how he got the two sides past their deadlocks.
Free to read
Published open: reports, studies and old histories whose publishers put the whole text online.
1905Free to read
Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionNajeeb M. Saleeby
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.
1908Free to read
The History of SuluNajeeb M. Saleeby
Sulu from its earliest written genealogies to the American arrival, drawn from the sultanate’s own documents, Spanish records and the author’s years in Jolo. Out of copyright and free to read.
1923Free to read
Myself and a Few MorosSydney A. Cloman
The memoir of a US Army officer posted to Sulu at the start of American rule, and what he made of the datus and the people he was sent to govern. Out of copyright and free to read.
2004Free to read
The Moro ConflictEric U. Gutierrez and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
The argument that land, not religion, is at the root of the Moro conflict: how colonial and Philippine land policy dispossessed the Moros and why the peace deals have not touched it. Free to read.
2007Free to read
Ridoed. Wilfredo Magno Torres III
The first systematic study of rido, the clan feuds that take more lives in Muslim Mindanao than the rebellion, with case studies from Lanao, Maguindanao, Sulu and Basilan and the ways communities settle them. Expanded edition from Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2014; the original is free to read.
2005Free to read
Political Clans and Violence in the Southern PhilippinesPeter Kreuzer
How the clans of Muslim Mindanao hold power through violence, and why the state lets them, in a report from the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Free to read.
1998Free to read
Muslim Rulers and RebelsThomas M. McKenna
An anthropologist’s account, from years in Cotabato City, of how ordinary Maguindanaons lived the rebellion, the datus and the state, and why the separatist story and the everyday one do not match. Free to read in the University of California Press e-books collection.
1892Free to read
Diccionario Moro-Maguindanao-EspañolJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
The Jesuit mission’s Maguindanaon–Spanish dictionary, the first for the language, compiled at Tamontaka. Out of copyright and free to read.
1906Free to read
A Grammar of the Maguindanao TongueJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
Juanmartí’s 1892 grammar translated into English for the American army by Captain C. C. Smith of the 14th Cavalry. Out of copyright and free to read.
2024Free to read
Advancing Bangsamoro AspirationsAbhoud Syed M. Lingga
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.
2016Free to read
Peace is for EveryoneAbhoud Syed M. Lingga
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.
2018Free to read
Negotiating PeaceSalah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)
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.
In the shops
Still in print: each page links to a shop that sells it.
1973In print
Muslims in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
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.
1981In print
The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898James Francis Warren
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.
2002In print
Iranun and BalangingiJames Francis Warren
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.
2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
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.
2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.
2007In print
Mindanao Ethnohistory beyond NationsShinzo Hayase
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.
2004In print
The Great IslandMiguel A. Bernad
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.
1936In print
Swish of the KrisVic Hurley
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.
2007In print
Moroland, 1899–1906Robert A. Fulton
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.
2011In print
The Moro WarJames R. Arnold
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.
2013In print
Making MorosMichael C. Hawkins
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.
2020In print
American DatuRonald K. Edgerton
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.
From the offices
The newsletters, magazines and reports the Bangsamoro Government’s own ministries and offices publish, issue by issue.
newsletter · BIO
MerdekaThe Bangsamoro Government’s own newsletter: the month’s news from the Chief Minister’s office and the ministries, laid out as a magazine and posted on the government’s website.
6 issues found
budget magazine · MFBM
Al-MizaniyyahThe finance ministry’s magazine of each year’s budget: where the money comes from, what each ministry gets and what it is for, in plain language and charts. Its name is Arabic for “the budget”.
4 issues found
briefer · MFBM
BARMM Economic BrieferA short quarterly on the region’s economy from the finance ministry: growth, prices, jobs, revenue and the provinces, with the figures behind each.
11 issues found
magazine · MHSD
MHSDelivers MagazineThe housing ministry’s magazine of its programmes and projects, read as a flipbook on its website.
3 issues found
magazine · BICTO
TechronicleThe ICT office’s quarterly, with two issues for 2025 on its publications page: a flipbook and a PDF.
2 issues found
newsletter · MAFAR
MAFAR NewsletterThe agriculture ministry’s monthly, of which two 2021 issues are on its publications page.
2 issues found