We’re thrilled to announce that our fourth title for 2025 is officially out! 🚀

🎉 “The Politics of Peace and the Mindanao Problem: Tracing the Roots of a Historical Injustice”
by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (ElziStyle Bookshop, 2025).
🔗 Grab it here: https://bit.ly/PoliticsofPeace or here: https://amzn.to/3EpBJ3S

This milestone means we’re still right on track with our goal: one new title every month! 📅✅

Here’s our 2025 lineup so far:

📖 January – BARMM Barangay Justice System Training Manual (link coming soon!)
📖 February – Cracking the Shari‘ah Code → https://bit.ly/ShariahCode
📖 March – Risalah Liqa’Allah (https://amzn.to/433BCnR) and Risalah Ma‘rifat Allah (https://amzn.to/4lJeDFX)

🔥 Get your copy today!
🇵🇭 Paperback (Philippines): https://bit.ly/PoliticsofPeace
🌍 Paperback (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3EpBJ3S

Let’s keep the FIRE burning — Formation, Instruction, Research, and Engagement — one book at a time. ✊🏽

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Publisher’s Foreword

With deep pride and a sense of historical continuity, we present “The Politics of Peace and the Mindanao Problem: Tracing the Roots of a Historical Injustice”—the third published work on political theory of Professor Christopher Ryan Maboloc under ElziStyle Bookshop. In each of his works, Dr. Maboloc speaks not just as a scholar of political theory and ethics, but as a Mindanawon whose roots are deeply embedded in the soil of a long-contested land. This book, however, is more than an intellectual undertaking—it is a moral appeal. A call to remember. A plea to listen.

It is no coincidence that we release this book today, April 28, 2025, marking the fifty-first anniversary of the Proclamation of Bangsamoro Independence by MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari. That moment in 1974, declared in the heat of war and amid the smoke of displacement, was not a declaration made lightly. It was a response to erasure—a bold assertion that the Bangsamoro are not a forgotten people in the shadows of a Manila-centered narrative, but a nation within a nation, with a memory long and a struggle deep.

This book sits at the intersection of memory and philosophy, history and justice. It is not content with simply recounting events. Instead, Prof. Maboloc interrogates the moral foundations of peace, weaves together global theories of justice with local realities, and challenges the reader to look beyond policy to see people—fathers and mothers, communities and cultures—whose lives have been shaped by forces beyond their control.

In publishing this work, we also acknowledge our role—not merely as disseminators of ideas, but as participants in the shaping of historical consciousness. For decades, the Mindanao and Bangsamoro narrative has been filtered through the lenses of state power, media bias, and academic detachment. But here, we are reminded that true peace begins with the recognition of injustice—and that reconciliation cannot happen without truth.

It has been our distinct honor to journey with Prof. Maboloc in bringing this book to life. His voice joins a growing chorus of Moro and Mindanawon thinkers determined to reclaim their narrative, ground their scholarship in lived experience, and carve a path toward a peace that is not just negotiated, but earned through justice.

We dedicate this publication to all those who have dared to dream of self-determination—not as defiance, but as the birthright of any people who have known too well the sting of exclusion. May this book serve not only as a contribution to the academic discourse, but as a seed of understanding and solidarity for future generations.

Mansoor Limba, PhD, SCL

ElziStyle Bookshop

Cotabato City

April 28, 2025

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Paperback (Philippines): https://bit.ly/PoliticsofPeace

Paperback (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3EpBJ3S

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