FATHER OF WESTERN ECONOMICS, ADAM SMITH, TOOK ‘MOST OF HIS BEST IDEAS’ FROM SHARIA LAW* Posted on May 24, 2016 by *Robert Barsocchini* In the West, *Adam Smith* is considered to be the *‘father of economics’*. He is ‘revered’ both by Western academics and in Western popular culture and government, particularly within the ‘citadel of the international right wing’, Washington, D.C. ppp ... It’s all the more ironic, then, that Adam Smith, *“got most of his best ideas and best lines from medieval Islam”*, specifically *from Sharia law*, as noted by David Graeber, an anthropologist who has taught at Princeton and the London School of Economics. For example, around the year 1,100, Islamic thinker *al-Ghazali* “highlighted the importance of the division of labour” using “the example of a needle factory to illustrate his point”. Seven centuries later, *Adam Smith used the same example*, a needle factory, to illustrate the same idea, division of labor, but without citing al-Gh
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