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Publisher · university press
University of the Philippines Press
Quezon City · since 1965
The press of the national university, and the Philippines’ main academic publisher.
7 books on the shelf
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.
1989Out of print
Decolonization and Filipino Muslim IdentitySamuel K. Tan
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.
1997In print
Born in the Year 1900 and Other StoriesAida Rivera-Ford
Short stories by the Jolo-born writer best known for “The Chieftest Mourner”, still one of the most taught stories in Philippine classrooms, from the University of the Philippines Press.
2001In print
The Moro Islamic ChallengeSoliman M. Santos Jr.
Whether the Philippine Constitution can accommodate the Moro demand for self-rule, and what would have to change, by a human rights lawyer who worked the peace process for years.
2010In print
The Muslim South and BeyondSamuel K. Tan
Tan’s later essays on the history and historiography of the Muslim South, collected at the end of his career.
2010In print
Below the Crying MountainCriselda Yabes
A novel of Sulu in the 1970s, of a Tausug family and the war that came to Jolo. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the UP Centennial Literary Prize.
2013In print
Costly Wars, Elusive PeaceMiriam Coronel-Ferrer
Essays written across two decades of the Philippine peace processes, with the Moro fronts and with the communists, by the scholar who would chair the panel that signed the Comprehensive Agreement.