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From the Bangsamoro · historian
Samuel K. Tan
born 1933 · died 2017
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.
5 books on the shelf
1977Out of print
The Filipino Muslim Armed Struggle, 1900–1972Samuel K. Tan
Filipinas Foundation
The Moro revolts from the American conquest to the eve of martial law, by the historian who would lead the National Historical Institute.
1989Out of print
Decolonization and Filipino Muslim IdentitySamuel K. Tan
University of the Philippines Press
What decolonisation meant for a people who did not see the republic as their own, and how a Filipino Muslim identity was argued over in the decades after independence.
1993Out of print
Internationalization of the Bangsamoro StruggleSamuel K. Tan
UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies
How the Moro cause reached the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Muslim world, and what the attention did to the movement at home. Revised 1995.
2005Out of print
Surat SugSamuel 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.
2010In print
The Muslim South and BeyondSamuel K. Tan
University of the Philippines Press
Tan’s later essays on the history and historiography of the Muslim South, collected at the end of his career.