Khattab, Kamal Tawfiq. “Ibn Khaldūn and Western Economic Thought,” Year 13, Issue 51 (Winter 1429 AH/ 2008 CE), Pp. 285-308.

Abstract

Kamal Khattab’s study is an attempt to reveal the reality of economic debate regarding the relationship between Western economic thought and Ibn Khaldūn's thought. It discusses, moreover, the relationship of influencing and being influenced between Ibn Khaldūn and Western economic thought and Greek and Roman thought, and the extent to which it is influenced by Islamic thought. It presents the most important foundations on which capitalist economic thought and Greek and Roman economic thought are built, and their relationship with Ibn Khaldūn's thought, Ibn Khaldūn and Islamic economic thought, Khaldūnian economic thought and its influence on Western thought, and Ibn Khaldūn's theories on value, state, public finance, trade, and relative privileges.