This is just a short list of various books and other materials that may help in learning more about Moro Swords and culture. This by no means a final list nor a complete list. These are only references that I myself have reviewed. I will add material as I am made aware of it, find it, and review it. Like all I am just a student of life striving to learn everyday so stay tuned for book updates and other references.
Recomended References
Muslims in the Philippines by Cesar A. Majul
Moro Swords by Robert Cato
History of SULU by Najeeb M. Saleeby
Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. Saleeby
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the Philippines by Cesar Adib Majul
Barangay by William Henry Scott
The Sulu Zone: The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination by James F. Warren
The Maguindanao Sultanate in the 17th Century: Triumph of Moro Diplomacy by Ruurdje Laarhoven
Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines by Thomas M. McKenna
The Sulu Zone 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State by James Francis Warren
Muddy Glory: America's 'Indian Wars' in the Philippines 1899-1935 by Russel Roth
Mandate in Moroland: The AMerican Government of Muslim FIlipinos 1899-1920 by Peter Gordon Gowin
The Jama Mapun: A Changing Samal Society in the Southern Philippines by Eric Casino
The Keris Sulok or Sundang by E. Banks
SWORDS AND DAGGERS OF INDONESIA by Vaclav Solc
Maguindanao, 1860-1888: The Career of Datu Uto of Buayan by Reynaldo Clemena ILeto
The Malay Keris: Its Origin and Development by G.C. Wooley
Land of the Morning: Treasures of the Philippines, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum by David Baradas
The People and Art of the Philippines by Father Gabriel Casal et al
Art in Sulu: A Survey by D.L. Szanton
Bannerman Catalogue of Military Goods-1927
A view from the Islands: The Samal of Tawi-Tawi by Karen J. Allison
Moros as Seen in Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago by D. Encinas
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
The Native Population of the Philippines by Senor Juan Caro Y Mora
From the Rainbow's Varied Hue, Textiles of the Southern Philippines Edited by Roy W. Hamilton
Magellan's Voyage, A Narrative Account of the First Circumnaviagtion by Antonio Pigafetta
The Tausug: Violence and Law in a Philippine Moslem Society by Thomas M. Kiefer
Treasures of the Philippine National Museum by Elena Paterno
Crossing the Sulu Seas A video by Cecil Quirino of Kris Cutlery
Filipino Martial Culture by Mark V. Wiley
The Swish of The Kris by Vic Hurley
The Sulu Archipelago and its People by Sixto Y. Orosa
A Moro Princess by Harriet Arnold Febiger
Weapons of the Philippine Islands by Frederic W. Hutchings
Men of the Sulu Sea by Helen Follet
Death Stalks the Philippine Wilds, Letters of Maud Huntley Jenks edited by Carmen Nelson Richards
The Kris: Mystic Weapon of the Malay World by Edward Frey
Bulletin 137 of The Smithsonian Institution: The Collection of Primitive Weapons and Armor of the Philippine Islands in the United States National Museum by Herbert W. Krieger
A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and use of Arms and Armor in all Countries and in all Times by George Cameron Stone
The Complete Bladesmith by Jim Hrisoulas
How to Make Knives by Richard W. Barney and Robert W. Loveless
Jewelery, Fundementals of Metalsmithing by Tim McCreight
Note
This is just a short list of various books and other materials that may help in learning more about Moro Swords and culture. This by no means a final list nor a complete list. These are only references that I myself have reviewed. I will add material as I am made aware of it, find it, and review it. Like all I am just a student of life striving to learn everyday so stay tuned for book updates and other references.