ABOUT THE BOOK

In his original preface to Muslims in the Philippines in 1970, Cesar Adib Majul highlights the various stages of history of the Muslim peoples. But what stands out when one reads this book more than fifty years later is Majul’s call to the Muslim youth in the Philippines, to whom he dedicates the book. His message is directed toward them, and ultimately all of us at present who share the responsibility for what he endeavored the book to achieve, specifically so that “a future generation of Filipinos would consider the struggle of the Muslim South as part of the struggle of the entire nation.” This reprinted edition thus serves to put necessary focus not merely on a people’s history in isolation, but on one that is embedded within the history of the larger national community.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cesar Adib Majul was born in Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines, on October 21, 1923. He was educated at the University of the Philippines and Cornell University. From 1961 until 1966, he was Dean of the University College, University of the Philippines, and from 1969 until 1971, he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines. He received the Republic Heritage Award for “the most outstanding contribution of Historical Writing during the period from May 1, 1960 to April 30, 1961” as well as the First Prize in the Biography Contest on the Life of Apolinario Mabini in 1964. From the University of the Philippines, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 1968.

His major works include The Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Philippine Revolution (1957, 1968, 1996), Mabini and the Philippine Revolution (1960, 1996), and Apolinario Mabini: Revolutionary (1964).