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The prophet Mohammed was an early proponent of property rights. When a famine in Medina brought sharp price increases, people implored him to lessen the hardship by fixing prices. He refused because, having once been a merchant himself, he believed the buyers' and sellers' free choices should not be overriden. "Allah is the only who sets the prices and gives prosperity and poverty", he said. "I would not want to be complained about before Allah by someone whose property or livelihood has been violated."

John McMillan, num capítulo belíssimo sobre direitos de propriedade em Reinventing the Bazaar: a natural history of markets. As citações de Maomé são do Hadith, traduzidas por Muhamet Yildez.