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A Collection of Essays
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
Early essays by Mastura on Moro history, law and politics, from the years before he entered Congress.
Muslim Filipino Experience is a collection of essays published in Manila by the Ministry of Muslim Affairs in 1984, as number 3 in its Philippine Islam series. It runs to about 285 pages.
Michael O. Mastura is a lawyer and writer from Cotabato and a descendant of Sultan Kudarat. In 1981 he became the first Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Muslim Affairs. He was a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and later represented the First District of Maguindanao and Cotabato City in Congress from 1987 to 1995.
From tuklas.up.edu.ph, opac.kedahlib.gov.my, en.wikipedia.org.
2012Out of print
Bangsamoro QuestMichael O. Mastura
The government–MILF talks from February 1997 to June 2010, told by a Maguindanaon historian and lawyer who sat on the Front’s 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.
1985Out of print
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
Majul’s short account of the Moro struggle of the 1970s and the rise of the Moro National Liberation Front, written for readers abroad.

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.