The economic value of prices according to Ibn Hawqal Al-Nusaibi (d. 378 AH)

Abstract

The trip of Ibn Hawqal Abi al-Qasim Muhammad bin Ali al-Mawsili is one of the trips that took place in the fourth century AH (the tenth century AD), which emphasizes the interest in the countries of the Islamic world and the description of their different regions. the river.
Ibn Hawqal dealt with the movement of capital in his discussion of the prices of commodities, commercial goods, agricultural and animal products in the regions of the Islamic world in the fourth century AH, and explained the reasons for cheap prices and their high prices, focusing mainly on the phenomenon of cheap prices, which he expressed in economic terms commensurate with the type of phenomenon. Ibn Hawqal to explain the phenomenon of prices, but used a method