The books

2020Self-published

Abdulaziz H. Hamsain

Blurb

Tausug dishes from a home cook, printed on demand: tiyula itum, pastil, satti and the rest.

2015Self-published

Bruce Jenkins

Independently published

A collector’s illustrated catalogue of Moro blades and arms, printed on demand.

2015Self-published

Bruce Jenkins

Independently published

A companion catalogue devoted to the kris, printed on demand.

2013Free to read

Abubakar Datumanong, Parido Rahman Pigkaulan, Maguid Makalingkang and others

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

Four ways Moro communities settle disputes and feuds by custom, set out by researchers from those communities, with the case for building them into the formal justice system.

2012Out of print

eds. Midori Kawashima and Tirmizy E. Abdullah

Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University

A study of handwritten Qur’ans, prayer books and kitabs kept by families in Lanao, with what they show of how Islam was learned and copied in the region.

2010In print

ed. Gerard Rixhon

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Tausug epics, tales, songs and sayings recorded over forty years in Sulu, with translations, from the founder of the journal Sulu Studies.

2008Out of print

Pressia Arifin-Cabo, Joel Dizon and Khomenie Mantawel

Kadtuntaya Foundation

A photo-documentary, with photographs by Bobby Timonera, in which key actors in the Mindanao conflict each describe their vision of peace. It also shows everyday rural life in North Cotabato and Maguindanao during an uneasy ceasefire, in English and Maguindanaon.

2005In print

Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa

Ateneo de Manila University Press

The carved, woven and worked ornament of Sulu, ukkil, in a large illustrated study by the dancer and scholar who spent her life recording the archipelago’s arts.

2003Out of print

Abraham P. Sakili

UP Asian Center

Moro art, architecture and ornament read for the ideas of space and self behind them, by a Tausug art historian.

2001Out of print

Nagasura T. Madale

National Commission for Culture and the Arts

Stories of the lake and essays on Maranao life by a Maranao anthropologist.

1997Out of print

Abdullah T. Madale

Rex Book Store

A general account of the Maranao for students and the curious: history, social ranks, arts, beliefs and daily life around Lake Lanao.

1996Out of print

Abdullah T. Madale

Rex Book Store

The torogan, the carved house of the Maranao datu, its building, its okir and the rank it proclaimed.

1996Out of print

Robert Cato

Graham Brash

The kris, barong, kampilan and the rest, their forms, their making and their meaning, in the standard illustrated guide for collectors.

1989Out of print

Norma Abubakar Abdulla

Centro Escolar University

Tausug cooking and what it says of Tausug life: the dishes, the occasions and the manners of the table, with recipes.

1988Out of print

Juan R. Francisco

Mindanao State University

Essays on the Indian and Islamic strands in Mindanao’s arts and epics, by a scholar of Sanskrit in the Philippines.

1986Out of print

Mindanao State University, Folklore Division

Mindanao State University

The Maranao epic of Bantugan and the kingdom of Bembaran, sung for centuries around Lake Lanao, transcribed and translated in eight volumes by Mindanao State University; inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as a masterpiece of oral heritage.

1983Out of print

Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa

Filipinas Foundation

The pangalay dance of Sulu and the dances, music and dress around it, documented in the field by the woman who brought it to the national stage.

1983Out of print

Mig Alvarez Enriquez

New Day Publishers

Three epic heroes put on stage, among them Bantugan, the hero of the Maranao Darangen.

1975Out of print

eds. Mamitua Saber and Abdullah T. Madale

Solidaridad Publishing House

Essays by Maranao scholars on their own people: the sultanates, the torogan, the darangen, marriage, law and the lake.