The Many Ways of Being Muslim

The Many Ways of Being Muslim
Author: Coeli Maria Barry
Publisher: SEAP Publications
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780877276050

"This collection brings together for the first time 22 short stories by nine Muslim Filipinos written over nearly seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. Muslims are a minority in the predominantly Catholic Philippines and the integration of Muslims into this nation has been uneven. As the stories in this anthology reflect, there is no simple or single way to capture the complex ways Muslims from different backgrounds - but especially those from the college-educated middle classes - interact with and help define contemporary Filipino identity and intellectual life. Few Muslims have seen their work anthologized in major short story collections in the Philippines: this anthology, possibly the biggest assemblage of Muslim Filipino fictionists, is intended to give readers in the Philippines and elsewhere a chance to read and enjoy their writings." --Book Jacket.

Muslim Filipinos

Muslim Filipinos
Author: Peter G. Gowing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1979
Genre: Filipinos
ISBN: 9789711002398

The Muslim Filipinos constitute about 5 per cent of the approximated 43 million christian population in the Philippines. This group of Filipinos predominantly inhabit the southern islands of the country.

Muslim Rulers and Rebels

Muslim Rulers and Rebels
Author: Thomas M. McKenna
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520919645

In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims. He also explores the motivations of the ordinary men and women who fight in armed separatist struggles and investigates the formation of nationalist identities. A skillful meld of historical detail and ethnographic research, Muslim Rulers and Rebels makes a compelling contribution to the study of protest, rebellion, and revolution worldwide.

Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy

Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy
Author: Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789811512308

This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region. It offers a critical historical and ethnographic analysis of a century of failed attempts under successive U.S. colonial and independent Philippine governments to deploy education as a tool to mitigate the conflict and assimilate the Muslim minority into the mainstream of Philippine society and examines recent efforts to integrate state and Islamic education before proposing a philosophy of prophetic pragmatism as a more promising framework for educational policy and practice that respects the religious identity and fosters the educational development of Muslim Filipinos. It represents a timely contribution to the search for educational policies and practices more responsive to the needs and religious identities of Muslim communities emerging from conflict, not only in the southern Philippines, but in other international contexts as well.

Making Moros

Making Moros
Author: Michael C. Hawkins
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1609090748

Making Moros offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. Hawkins argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and subsequent colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time, history, and evolution, which ultimately superseded simplistic notions about race. He also argues that this process was highly collaborative, with Moros participating, informing, guiding, and even investing in their configuration as modern subjects. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources from both the United States and the Philippines, Making Moros presents a series of compelling episodes and gripping evidence to demonstrate its thesis. Readers will find themselves with an uncommon understanding of the Philippines' Muslim South beyond its usual tangential place as a mere subset of American empire.

Education in the Muslim World

Education in the Muslim World
Author: Rosarii Griffin
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006-05-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 187392755X

This collection of articles is an eclectic selection of studies of a range of educational situations relating to Muslim populations in different parts of the world. It is intended as a selection and in no way contains any overarching theme, other than illustrating the wide diversity of situations and issues relating to education in Muslim societies. The contributors provide a wide and fascinating range of insights and problems, many of which apply to other communities as well; there is much to be shared and celebrated between ‘east’ and ‘west’, but only with greater understanding. It is hoped this book will contribute something towards that understanding.