Editing Division of labour (section)

===Medieval Muslim scholars===

The division of labour was discussed by multiple medieval Persian scholars. They considered the division of labour between members of a household, between members of society and between nations. For [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]] and [[al-Ghazali]] the division of labour was necessary and useful. The similarity of the examples provided by these scholars with those provided by Adam Smith (such as al-Ghazali's needle factory and Tusi's claim that exchange, and by extension the division of labour, are the consequences of the human reasoning capability and that no animals have been observed to exchange one bone for another) led some scholars to conjecture that Smith was influenced by the medieval Persian scholarship.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Seeking the Roots of Adam Smith's Division of Labor in Medieval Persia |journal=History of Political Economy |date=1998 |volume=30 |issue=4 |page=667-673 |doi=10.1215/00182702-30-4-653 |last1=Hosseini |first1=Hamid }}</ref>