Initially, the author feels the need to produce a second edition of his book "Mosque and Moro: A study of Muslims in the Philippines" which is already out of print. He comes up with this book instead. As a comprehensive source material of Filipino Muslim studies, it has historical, anthropological, sociological and cultural information on Muslim Filipinos and their homeland. It includes topic like Islamization of the Philippines, opposition to foreign rule, Moro lifeways and mores, literature, music, dances, the arts, the Bangasamoro and the Philippine nation, integration and secession, and the probable direction of the Bangsamoro which the forces for change might.