The question of succession of governmental systems in the Arab-Islamic world was
singled out by the Maghrebian scholar Muhammad ‘Ābid al-J ā bir ī as a cardinal one,
regarding Ibn Rušd as the very philosopher, whose thought can resolve the problem
(with Ibn Haldūn being the second). All other names in Arab-Islamic thought, who devoted
their works to royal-sultanate advices had reduced the question of governance in the Arab-
Islamic world to the acknowledgement of its the ideal nature at the times of Caliphate
and the coup carried out by Mu’awiya – without describing what was the meaning of
such a despotism, which covered the entire history of Islam. The paper is an attempt to
sum up Ibn Rušd ’s political thought, which is based upon faith, rationalism and
human values. It is – in my opinion – an elaborate answer to radical Islamic thought and
the so-called fundamentalism. The research is carried out on the basis of sources, and
attempts to sum up the attainments of academic works published within the framework
of activities of the 800th anniversary, in 1998, of the philosophers death
