Contents

Part one: Islam

Islam in a multi-religious society

Church and Mosque: confrontation of symposium?

Some aspects of the history of Islam in Southeast Asia

Notes on the contact history of Mindanao and Sulu

Part two: Muslim Filipino ethnology

The anthropology of Christianity and Islam in the Philippines: a bi-polar approach to divrsity

The meeting of the Tausug and Zamboanga worlds

Parrang Sabbil: ritual suicide among the Tausug of Solo

Tiruray-Maguindanaon ethnic relations: an ethnohistorical puzzle

Ramadhan as observed in Lanao

Muslim progress through social change

Part three: Muslims and the Philippine Nation

Reflections on the Moro wars and the new Filipino

The Cotabato conflict: impressions of an outsider

Maguindanaon hopes and fears from the constitutional convention

The Philippines State and "secularized" Muslim concepts: aspects and problems

Development program for Mindanao and Sulu: retrospect and prospect

Contrasting agenda for peace in the Muslim South

The tragedy in Mindanao and Sulu and some thoughts about the way out-a communique from the eight annual seminar