The Arab-Muslim thinkers’ views on the Islamic statehood

This article is devoted to the analysis of the Middle Ages Muslim thinkers’ views on statehood. The con- tents of the works of such thinkers as Al-Mawardi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Rushd are briefly disclosed. Their views are divided into three areas: the concept of an ideal Islamic state, together with the history of the Caliphate and the foundations of Islam (Al-Mawardi), the theory of representatives of Arab-Muslim peripa- tetism (Al-Farabi, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sina), the historical sociological approach to the state (Ibn Rushd).