Ibn Bajja's political philosophy

Andalusian is one of the most important centers of Islamic culture and civilization in the West. Ibn Bajja raised in this culture and civilization and deserved the title of being first competent philosopher of Andalusia. Ibn Bajja especially is known with his original views about political philosophy. The factor that separates him from previous and makes him original thinkers in political philosophy is setting out a different information and community project that will allow society to become virtuous. Also, this project which he tried to set out is based on reason and morality. Ibn Bajja besides having virtuous utopia state involved closely with self-management of virtues people or nawābit who are forsed to live unvirtues state. Ibn Bajja's nawâbit on the one hand, protecting himself from corruptions in the society on the other hand, it represents hope of unvirtue community to be virtue. Also, he made important point about relationship between politics-happiness and politics-religion which are basic problematic of political philosophy. He had a profound impact on many philosophers including Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) and Ibn Maymun (d. 1204). In this work we aim to determine the position of Ibn Bajja that is overlooked in political science. And we aim to examine his original opinions about the political philosophy. Keywords: Ibn Bajja, Political Philosophy, Nawābit, Tadbîr al-Mutawahhid, Happness, Politics-Religion Relation