Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Umran: How can Muslim Countries benefit from his thought in development

Why Expenditure in Markets:
Finally comes the idea of Ibn Khaldun in taking the increased consumers expenditure in markets as an indication and evidence of development or Umran, or vice versa, in the sense that the lack of spending in markets is a lack of urbanization, (completely consistent with what we know in the modern analysis "the criteria of economic activity"), (Abdelrahman Yousri, 2006). Ibn Khaldun explains this through cooperation concept in Muqadimmah (The reason for this is that, as is known and well established, the individual human being cannot by himself obtain all the necessities of life. All human beings must co-operate to that end in their civilization. But what is obtained through the co-operation of a group of human beings satisfies the need of a number many times greater (than themselves). For instance, no one, by himself, can obtain the share of the wheat he needs for food. But when six or ten persons, including a smith and a carpenter to make the tools, and others who are in charge of the oxen, the plowing of the soil, the harvesting of the ripe grain, and all the other agricultural activities, undertake to obtain their food and work toward that purpose either separately or collectively and thus obtain through their labor a certain amount of food, (that amount) will be food for a number of people many times their own. The combined labor produces more than the needs and necessities of the workers) (Ibn Khaldun Muqadimmah, Franz Rosenthal translation, p. 455). He continued in the same meaning (If the labor of the inhabitants of a town or city is distributed in accordance with the necessities and needs of those inhabitants, a minimum of that labor will suffice. The labor (available) is more than is needed. Consequently, it is spent to provide the conditions and customs of luxury and to satisfy the needs of the inhabitants of other cities. They import (the things they need) from (people who have a surplus) through exchange or purchase. Thus, the (people who have a surplus) get a good deal of wealth) (Ibn Khaldun, 1969, p. 455)

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