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Professor of Economics, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

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Ibn Khaldun is pioneer of modern economic thought in the fourteenth century AD. A number of researchers have claimed that his economic ideas has no associations with later economic thoughts. They also claimed that his economic ideas are economic thought of Islam and he is the originator of the labor theory of value and historical materialism before Marx. In this article the mentioned claims are investigated and shown that according to the evidences, it seems that the economic ideas of Ibn Khaldun transferred to Scottish (classical) thinkers through school of Salamanca . Ibn Khaldun's economic ideas is not economic thoughts of Islam, but an analysis of the economy of Muslims. Ibn Khaldun also is not the originator of labor theory of value and historical materialism.

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ابن‌خلدون‌، عبدالرحمن‌ (1347)، مقدمۀ ابن‌خلدون، ترجمۀ محمدپروین گنابادی، ج 1 و 2، تهران: بنگاه ترجمه و نشر کتاب.
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