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Interviews with divorced Tausug women on marriage, separation and what the law and the community allowed them.
Jennifer Saipudin Nandu's short study looks at the experiences and views of divorced Muslim women in Jolo, Sulu. It is a revised version of her 2001 master's thesis at De La Salle University. It was published in 2003 in the university's Health Social Science book series, with support from the Ford Foundation, and runs to 82 pages.
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1979Out of print
Muslim Filipinos: Heritage and HorizonPeter G. Gowing
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.

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.
1991Out of print
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The sultanate, the datus, the law and the ranks of Maguindanao society, set out from Spanish sources and the author’s ethnographic fieldwork.

2007In print
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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.
1993Out of print
The Lumad and Moro of MindanaoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
A short report for an international readership on the two peoples displaced by the settlement of Mindanao and the state of their claims in the early 1990s.

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.

1995Out of print
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Episodes of the Maranao epic retold in English prose, for readers who will not face the eight volumes.
1995Out of print
Maranao StoriesHoward P. McKaughan
Maranao folktales translated into English, from the linguist who compiled the Maranao dictionary.

2001Out of print
Panunggud and Other StoriesCalbi A. Asain
Stories of Tausug life in Sulu by a Tausug writer of fiction, from De La Salle University Press.