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Peace process · book
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
A 3-volume history of the GPH–MILF peace negotiations from the MILF side, with copies of every signed agreement between the 2 parties. Volume 1 covers the domestic phase of the talks from 1997 to 2000.
Journey to the Bangsamoro was published in 2015 by the MILF Peace Panel in 3 volumes. It tells the history of the peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and reproduces every agreement the 2 sides signed.
The panel meant it to show stakeholders why the process matters historically, to record what it achieved, and to urge continued commitment to the process and its agreements. Volume 1 covers the domestic phase of the talks, from 1997 to 2000.
From mpiasia.net.
Published by the MILF Peace Panel.

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.
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.

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.
2001Out of print
The Bangsamoro People's Struggle against Oppression and ColonialismSalamat Hashim
Writings by the founding chairman of the MILF on the Bangsamoro struggle against oppression and colonial rule. It sets out the MILF's case for Bangsamoro self-determination.