Aristocrats of the Malay race : a history of the Bangsa Moro in the Philippines / Nasser A. Marohomsalic

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Marawi City] : N.A. Marohomsalic, c2001Description: xxxiv, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9711111371
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS 666.M7 M36 2001
Contents:
1. Malay Aristocrat -- 2. Tingling of the Bells -- 3. Nakodas of the waves -- 4. Under the Eagle's Shadow -- 5. Seeds of Rebellion -- 6. Politics of Rebellion -- 7. Marcosian Nightmare -- 8. Tripoli Trail -- 9. Splits and Slips -- 10. Unequal Alliances. -- 11. Tryst for Peace -- 12. Question Identity -- 13. Controlled Autonomy
Summary: This book is a celebration of the struggle of the Bangsa Moro for self-determination. It is more than a parade of dates and chronicle of events that illumined the course of their history; it is as much a treasury of their aspirations as it is a registry of their complaints against, what one Moro writer calls, the 'tyranny of the majority'. The book comprehensively records their struggle, first, against Spain, then against America, and then against the government of the majority Filipinos or what they call their M'ranao vernacular, beberno a saroang-a-tao or the 'government of foreigners.' Against Spain, it was a stalemate. Against America, the Bangsa Moro were militarily vanquished, but they remained unbowed. Incorporated into the Philippine Republic of legal fiction in 1946, they persisted to this day in their claim to aristocratic hauteur as different and separate from the majority Filipinos and continued to carry on the armed struggle for independence begun by their forebears more than 400 years ago. Going by many phases, that conflict, however, eludes resolution with finality. Grappling with the socio-cultural milieu of the Moro, the book offers a political formula, that is, a separate State and government to the Bangsa Moro within a federal set-up. In order to establish a state of delicity in a mixed Muslim-Christian community, the book farther recommends for both the Christian majority and the Moro minority to observe the ways of peace enshrined in their respective relilgion in the conduct of their affairs or to constitute a political set-up founded on principles common to both Islam and Christianity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Malay Aristocrat -- 2. Tingling of the Bells -- 3. Nakodas of the waves -- 4. Under the Eagle's Shadow -- 5. Seeds of Rebellion -- 6. Politics of Rebellion -- 7. Marcosian Nightmare -- 8. Tripoli Trail -- 9. Splits and Slips -- 10. Unequal Alliances. -- 11. Tryst for Peace -- 12. Question Identity -- 13. Controlled Autonomy

This book is a celebration of the struggle of the Bangsa Moro for self-determination. It is more than a parade of dates and chronicle of events that illumined the course of their history; it is as much a treasury of their aspirations as it is a registry of their complaints against, what one Moro writer calls, the 'tyranny of the majority'. The book comprehensively records their struggle, first, against Spain, then against America, and then against the government of the majority Filipinos or what they call their M'ranao vernacular, beberno a saroang-a-tao or the 'government of foreigners.' Against Spain, it was a stalemate. Against America, the Bangsa Moro were militarily vanquished, but they remained unbowed. Incorporated into the Philippine Republic of legal fiction in 1946, they persisted to this day in their claim to aristocratic hauteur as different and separate from the majority Filipinos and continued to carry on the armed struggle for independence begun by their forebears more than 400 years ago. Going by many phases, that conflict, however, eludes resolution with finality. Grappling with the socio-cultural milieu of the Moro, the book offers a political formula, that is, a separate State and government to the Bangsa Moro within a federal set-up. In order to establish a state of delicity in a mixed Muslim-Christian community, the book farther recommends for both the Christian majority and the Moro minority to observe the ways of peace enshrined in their respective relilgion in the conduct of their affairs or to constitute a political set-up founded on principles common to both Islam and Christianity.

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