ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses uniquely progressive universal Islamic perspective on the free mobility of labor in light of Islamic teachings. It presents a unique Islamic view of humans as global/universal citizens and highlights the nature of the Islamic Common Market (ICM), as a progressive vehicle institution for ensuring the free universal mobility of labor, capital, goods, services, and technology. The chapter also presents an empirical insight into several contemporary Islamic countries’ serious macroeconomic problems of unemployment, poverty, and low human development, which are partly due to the nonexistence of the ICM, and an Islamic economic rationale for instituting the ICM. It describes potential progressive macroeconomic effects of efficient free global labor migration in a framework of the ICM–including a significant increase in personal income, consumption, global employment, global trade, and investment, improved personal and functional income distribution, poverty alleviation, and a decline in inflation.
