The authors

scholar · 1 book

Scholar of Maranao literature.

researcher · 1 book

Tausug researcher who documented her people’s food and foodways.

scholar · 1 book

Maranao scholar of Islamic manuscripts who worked with Sophia University on the kitabs of Lanao.

political scientist · 2 books

Filipino political scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, from Ozamiz, who has written on Mindanao’s place in the Philippine state and on the Moro narrative.

writer · 1 book

Filipino writer and former activist, author of a memoir of the underground and of a Filipino-language account of the Bangsamoro.

researcher · 2 books

Bangsamoro researcher on peace and conflict, long with the peace programme at Universiti Sains Malaysia.

writer · 1 book

Author of The Contested Corners of Asia, published in 2013.

linguist · 1 book

Maranao language teacher and author.

linguist · 1 book

Tausug language teacher and author.

dancer, scholar · 2 books

Dancer and scholar who recorded the pangalay and the visual arts of Sulu over forty years, and received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015.

scholar · 1 book

Assistant professor at Mindanao State University in Zamboanga Sibugay.

poet, critic, editor · 1 book

Poet, fiction writer and critic, born in Cagayan de Oro in 1946, long a professor of English at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and a co-editor of the Mindanao Harvest anthologies and the Iligan National Writers Workshop volumes.

writer · 1 book

Author of Dar-ul Salam, published in 2008.

military historian · 1 book

American military historian and the author of many campaign histories.

writer · 1 book

Author of Women and Conflict, published in 2011.

fiction writer · 1 book

Tausug writer of fiction from Sulu, whose stories appear in the Mindanao Harvest anthologies.

linguist · 1 book

Summer Institute of Linguistics linguist who worked on Tausug.

linguist · 1 book

Summer Institute of Linguistics linguist who worked on Tausug.

political scientist · 2 books

Coordinator of the peace research programme at Universiti Sains Malaysia and of the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network.

writer · 1 book

Malaysian writer of Tausug descent in Sabah, who writes on the Tausug and the Sulu Sultanate.

anthropologist, essayist · 1 book

Filipino anthropologist and essayist, a fellow of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

writer · 3 books

Lawyer and founder of the Institute for Autonomy and Governance; former dean of law at Notre Dame University, Cotabato City, and a fellow of the United States Institute of Peace.

writer · 1 book

Author of 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 Mindanao, published in 2023.

security analyst · 1 book

Philippine security analyst and chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research.

writer · 1 book

Zamboanga writer and advocate who self-published histories of the Sulu and Maguindanao sultanates.

political scientist · 1 book

Filipino political scientist at St. Joseph’s College, New York.

historian, Jesuit · 1 book

Miguel Anselmo Azcona Bernad, S.J. was a Filipino Jesuit priest, educator, linguist, critic, academic, historian, author, journalist and editor. Son of Misamis Mayor and Misamis Occidental Governor Don Anselmo Bernad, he entered the Society of Jesus on June 7, 1932 and was ordained March 24, 1946 in the Fordham University Church. He was editor-in-chief of Philippine Studies from 1956 to 1959 and founder of Kinaadman Journal Research Office in 1979.

writer · 1 book

Editor of Moving Beyond, published in 2014.

scholar · 1 book

Filipino scholar of agrarian politics at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.

writer · 1 book

Co-editor of International Alert's Conflict Alert 2019 report.

missionary, writer · 1 book

American missionary held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf for a year in 2001–2002, freed in the rescue in which her husband Martin was killed.

writer · 1 book

Author of The Three Faces of Mindanao, published in 2004.

anthropologist · 1 book

Filipino anthropologist, formerly of the National Museum, who wrote on the Jama Mapun and on Mindanao’s peoples.

collector · 1 book

Collector and writer on Moro arms.

historian · 1 book

Historian of American empire at the University of Glasgow.

political scientist · 1 book

Malaysian political scientist who compared the Moro and Patani Malay movements.

soldier · 1 book

United States Army officer posted to Sulu in the first years of American rule, who wrote a memoir of it two decades later.

scholar · 1 book

Professor and former dean of the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Administration and Governance.

writer · 1 book

Author of Mindanao, published in 2006.

legislature · 1 book

The national legislature that passed the Bangsamoro Organic Law.

writer · 1 book

Analyst of Southeast Asian politics who co-wrote the 2006 Lowy Institute Paper on Mindanao with Kit Collier.

political scientist, negotiator · 2 books

Political scientist at the University of the Philippines who chaired the government panel that signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in 2014, the first woman to sign a major peace accord as chief negotiator.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher on Moro customary law for the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies.

poet, editor · 1 book

Filipino poet who has edited anthologies of writing from Davao and Mindanao.

journalist · 2 books

Cotabato journalist who edited the Mindanao Cross and wrote on the peace process for MindaNews for decades.

sociologist · 1 book

Maranao sociologist at Mindanao State University.

writer · 1 book

Author of Dar-ul Salam, published in 2008.

poet, judge · 1 book

Cebuano poet and retired regional trial court judge.

writer · 1 book

Former director of the Ateneo de Zamboanga Research Center (2003–2010) and of the Peace Education Center at Notre Dame University.

historian · 2 books

Historian, emeritus of the University of Northern Colorado, who has written on central Mindanao and on Pershing’s years among the Moros.

novelist · 3 books

Novelist and short story writer born and raised in Zamboanga City and schooled by its Jesuits, whose fiction is set in the Mindanao he knew, from the Liguasan Marsh to Basilan. He later lived in Cagayan de Oro.

playwright, novelist · 2 books

Emigdio Alvarez Enriquez, novelist, story writer and playwright from Zamboanga, who began writing under the Jesuits of Ateneo de Zamboanga.

physician, veteran · 1 book

Physician who, by his own account, was the youngest commander in the guerrillas’ Sulu Area Command in 1945, and later a senator.

anthropologist · 1 book

Filipino anthropologist who studied the Kalibugan of the Zamboanga peninsula.

journalist · 1 book

Filipino journalist who covered defence and the Marawi siege for Rappler.

scholar · 1 book

Filipino Indologist and scholar of the Indian strands in Philippine culture.

writer · 1 book

Author of Their War, Our Struggle, published in 2004.

historian · 1 book

American independent historian of the Moro Province, who publishes under his own imprint.

editor · 1 book

Editor at the Institute for Popular Democracy.

writer · 1 book

Author of Mapagpakamalinawon, published in 2002.

journalist · 1 book

Thayil Jacob Sony George was an Indian writer and biographer who received a Padma Bhushan award in 2011 in the field of literature and education.

diplomat · 1 book

Malaysian diplomat and former director general of Malaysia’s National Security Council, who facilitated the government–MILF talks in 2000–2003 and again from 2011 to the 2014 agreement.

journalist · 1 book

Filipino journalist, a co-founder and the executive editor of Rappler, who covered the military and Mindanao for two decades.

poet, editor · 1 book

Poet and scholar of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, a co-editor of the Mindanao Harvest anthologies and of the Iligan National Writers Workshop volumes.

pastor, writer · 1 book

Protestant pastor and writer with the Silsilah Dialogue Movement in Zamboanga City.

party · 1 book

A party to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, through its peace panel.

historian · 3 books

American church historian who founded the Dansalan Research Center in Marawi City in 1971 and wrote the standard account of American rule over the Moros.

scholar · 1 book

Professor of Southeast Asian studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

writer · 1 book

Editor of War Makes States, published in 2019.

researcher · 2 books

Filipino political researcher, formerly of the Institute for Popular Democracy, who has written on the clans, the rebel fronts and the land question in Mindanao.

cook, author · 1 book

Tausug home cook who published his recipes on demand.

writer · 1 book

Author of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the Philippines, published in 2008.

writer · 1 book

Founding chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (died 2003).

lexicographer · 1 book

Tausug co-compiler of the Tausug–English dictionary.

historian · 1 book

Historian at Creighton University who works on the American colonial Philippines and its Muslim South.

historian · 1 book

Japanese historian of Mindanao and maritime Southeast Asia at Waseda University.

writer · 1 book

Author of Human Development for Peace and Prosperity in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, published in 2003.

writer · 1 book

Gerald Victor Hurley (1898–1978) was a record-breaking athlete, adventurer, expert on the Philippine Islands, military officer, and prolific author. His published books include a non-fiction series relating to the Philippine Islands in the first third of the twentieth century, military histories, screenplays, articles and works of fiction.

political scientist · 1 book

American political scientist at the Australian National University who has written on Philippine politics for three decades.

historian · 1 book

Reynaldo "Rey" Clemeña Ileto is a Filipino historian known for his seminal work Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910, first published in 1979. Ileto specializes in Asian history, religion and society, postcolonial studies, and the government and politics of Asia and the Pacific. He is known for his interdisciplinary approach combining history, literature, anthropology, cultural studies, and politics.

institute · 1 book

A Jakarta research institute on conflict in Southeast Asia, directed by Sidney Jones.

organisation · 1 book

The London peacebuilding organisation, with a long programme in Mindanao.

writer · 1 book

Author of Give Peace a Chance, published in 2006.

collector · 2 books

American collector whose private Moroland Museum collection fills a series of print-on-demand catalogues.

missionary, linguist · 2 books

Catalan Jesuit who ran the Tamontaka mission near Cotabato in the late nineteenth century and wrote the first Maguindanaon grammar and dictionary.

negotiator, historian · 3 books

Pen name of Mohagher Iqbal, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s chief negotiator in the talks that produced the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, and later the region’s first education minister.

scholar · 1 book

Tausug scholar of the University of the Philippines’ Asian Center who wrote on Tausug and Sama society.

teacher, historian · 1 book

Moro educator who wrote and published his own history textbook of the peoples of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.

historian · 1 book

Historian at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and a writer on Bangsamoro history and peace studies.

historian · 1 book

Japanese historian of Islam in the Philippines at Sophia University, Tokyo.

writer · 1 book

Maranao writer who publishes retellings of the Darangen independently.

anthropologist · 1 book

American anthropologist whose fieldwork in Jolo in the 1960s produced the classic ethnography of the Tausug.

institution · 1 book

The Commission on the Filipino Language, the national language body.

political scientist · 3 books

Senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt who works on violence and politics in the Philippines.

historian · 1 book

Dutch historian who worked the Dutch East India Company’s archives for the seventeenth-century Maguindanao sultanate.

writer · 1 book

Author of Mapagpakamalinawon, published in 2002.

sociologist · 2 books

Filipino sociologist, former country manager of International Alert Philippines, who has written on the shadow economies and the clans of Muslim Mindanao.

writer · 2 books

Oblate (OMI) priest who served as parish priest of Pikit, Cotabato, through the 2000 and 2003 wars and promoted interfaith 'spaces for peace'.

scholar · 2 books

Founder and executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies in Cotabato City, and a long-time writer on Bangsamoro self-determination and the MILF peace process.

researcher · 2 books

Nurse and assistant professor at Cotabato City State Polytechnic College, and researcher with the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies.

linguist · 1 book

American linguist of Philippine languages.

ethnologist · 1 book

French ethnologist and historian of Maguindanao and of Islam in the Philippines.

peace educator · 1 book

A Mindanaoan peacebuilder, national coordinator of the Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines and Nonviolence International’s representative in Asia, who started peace-education work in south Thailand and the Bangsamoro.

writer · 1 book

Author of The Three Faces of Mindanao, published in 2004.

lexicographer · 2 books

Maranao lexicographer at Mindanao State University, co-compiler of the Maranao dictionary.

scholar · 3 books

Maranao scholar and educator who wrote widely on his people.

anthropologist · 3 books

Maranao anthropologist at Mindanao State University and a writer on Maranao culture.

sociologist · 1 book

Filipino sociologist who taught at Mindanao State University and wrote on intergroup conflict in the South and the history of Moroland.

historian · 2 books

Cesar Adib Majul was a Philippine historian best known for his work on the history of Islam in the Philippines, and on the life of Apolinario Mabini.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher on Moro customary law for the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies.

filmmaker, writer · 1 book

Maguindanaon filmmaker and writer from Pagalungan, whose films and anthologies gave young Moro writers and filmmakers a platform.

writer · 1 book

Author of Dar-ul Salam, published in 2008.

writer · 1 book

Author of Mapagpakamalinawon, published in 2002.

lawyer, historian · 1 book

Maranao lawyer and writer, later a commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights, whose self-published history of the Bangsamoro is widely read in the region.

lawyer, historian · 2 books

Maguindanaon lawyer, historian and former congressman for Maguindanao, a member of the MILF peace panel and a descendant of the Maguindanao sultans.

linguist · 3 books

American linguist, with the Summer Institute of Linguistics and then the University of Hawaiʻi, who worked on Maranao from the 1950s.

anthropologist · 2 books

American anthropologist whose fieldwork in Cotabato City in the 1980s produced the standard ethnography of Maguindanaon politics, and who later told the story of Cotabato’s wartime guerrillas.

philosopher, priest · 1 book

Filipino philosopher-priest of the Society of the Divine Word, a founder of Filipino philosophy as a field.

soldier, analyst · 1 book

United States Army officer and security analyst.

scholar of education · 1 book

Professor of education at Florida State University who has studied schooling in Muslim Mindanao.

institution · 1 book

The division of the university’s research centre that transcribed and translated the Darangen.

institution · 1 book

The research centre of the university in Marawi City, founded by Mamitua Saber.

historian · 1 book

Filipino military historian.

party · 1 book

The Front that signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in 2014 and now leads the regional government.

political scientist · 2 books

Maranao political scientist who served as president of Mindanao State University.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher on Tausug women, published by De La Salle University.

anthropologist · 3 books

American anthropologist who lived with the Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi in the 1960s and returned to write their full ethnography.

writer · 1 book

Author of Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in and beyond the Bangsamoro, published in 2019.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

writer · 1 book

Author of The Contested Corners of Asia, published in 2013.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher on Moro customary law for the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies.

writer · 1 book

Author of Their War, Our Struggle, published in 2004.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher at the Ateneo Human Rights Center.

advocate · 2 books

Tausug advocate and president of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, a cabinet member under President Ramos and the daughter of the Sulu lawmaker Santanina Rasul.

short story writer, educator · 2 books

Short story writer born in Jolo, Sulu, best known for “The Chieftest Mourner”. She studied at Silliman University, edited its literary magazine Sands and Coral, and made her life in Davao, where she founded the Ford Academy of the Arts, the first fine arts school in Mindanao. She died in January 2026, days before her hundredth birthday.

playwright · 1 book

Filipino playwright and writer.

scholar · 1 book

Belgian-born scholar, formerly an Oblate missionary in Sulu, who founded the journal Sulu Studies at Notre Dame of Jolo College and recorded Tausug oral tradition for forty years.

historian · 4 books

Mindanao historian, long of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, who sat on the government panels that negotiated with the MNLF and the MILF and has written the region’s history for the general reader.

educator · 1 book

Educator at Mindanao State University.

political scientist · 1 book

American political scientist who was The Asia Foundation’s country representative in the Philippines from 1999 to 2017 and an adviser to the Mindanao peace process.

writer · 1 book

Programme manager at International Alert Philippines and co-editor of Conflict Alert 2019.

linguist · 1 book

Linguist of Philippine languages who has written grammars and dictionaries of Ilocano, Tagalog and Tausug.

sociologist · 2 books

Maranao sociologist who founded Mindanao State University’s University Research Center and the Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Arts in Marawi City, and wrote on Maranao history and art.

art historian · 1 book

Tausug art historian at the University of the Philippines’ Department of Art Studies.

colonial official, historian · 2 books

Lebanese-born American physician who served the Moro Province as superintendent of schools and agent for Moro affairs, and read the sultanates’ own tarsilas to write the first histories of them in English.

scholar · 1 book

Writer and teacher, co-author with Soliman M. Santos Jr. of the Small Arms Survey’s study of armed groups in the Philippines.

lawyer · 4 books

Human rights lawyer and peace advocate, long a writer on the Mindanao peace process, later a judge in Naga City.

researcher · 1 book

Researcher with International Alert on conflict economies in the Philippines.

writer · 1 book

Writer and editor of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies’ listening report on Marawi.

writer · 1 book

Author of the only book-length English account of the Yakan from the 1970s.

writer · 1 book

Author of Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in and beyond the Bangsamoro, published in 2019.

lawyer · 1 book

Lawyer at the Ateneo Human Rights Center.

anthropologist · 1 book

American anthropologist, director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and later professor at Pittsburgh.

lawyer · 1 book

Human rights lawyer at the Ateneo Human Rights Center.

editor · 2 books

Editor at the Institute for Popular Democracy.

writer · 1 book

American writer who wrote the authorised life of Nur Misuari.

linguist · 1 book

Linguist who worked on Maguindanaon.

missionary, lexicographer · 1 book

Oblate missionary at Notre Dame University, Cotabato City, who compiled the Maguindanaon dictionary.

writer · 1 book

Author of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the Philippines, published in 2008.

historian · 5 books

Samuel Kong Tan was a Filipino historian, academic and author. He has headed various cultural institutions including the National Historical Institute and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

political scientist · 1 book

Political scientist at Universiti Utara Malaysia.

writer · 1 book

IAG senior researcher; former executive director of the Notre Dame University Research Center (2003–2012) who has studied power relations in the ARMM, displacement and youth extremism.

researcher · 1 book

Program director at The Asia Foundation in the Philippines, who led its study of rido.

political analyst · 1 book

Director of policy studies at the Center for People Empowerment in Governance and a lecturer at the University of the Philippines.

writer · 1 book

Mindanao researcher who wrote IAG's 2020 civil-society study and IID's 2020 Civilian Policy Agenda for the Bangsamoro, and was on the research team of The Contested Corners of Asia.

writer · 1 book

Author of Living Peace, published in 2009.

writer · 1 book

Author of Living Peace, published in 2009.

journalist · 1 book

Marites Javier Dañguilan Vitug is a Filipina journalist and author who co-founded the news magazine Newsbreak. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1986 to 1987.

historian · 2 books

Australian historian of Southeast Asia at Murdoch University, whose studies of the Sulu Zone made the sultanate’s trading and raiding world a field of its own.

journalist · 2 books

German political scientist and journalist on Southeast Asia.

writer · 1 book

Author of The Three Faces of Mindanao, published in 2004.

journalist, novelist · 3 books

Filipino journalist and novelist who has followed the military and Mindanao since the 1980s; her novel of Sulu was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.

diplomat, historian · 1 book

Israeli diplomat and historian of the Muslim communities of Southeast Asia.