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<p>This article is intended to explore the impact of ihtikar on market mechanisms in Islamic<br />perspective. It provides a clear conceptual description of the effects of deviant actions in the market<br />mechanism, namely ihtikar actions. Then the concept can be used as an analysis for the role of government<br />as a regulator of the market. This research is a library research with a qualitative approach. The analysis<br />process will be described using the content analysis technique. The impact arising from the practice of<br />ihtikar is the practice of ihtikar disrupting the smooth transactions in the market, where producers get<br />huge profits while consumers suffer losses because producers take profits above the price they should. The<br />practice of ihtikar will disrupt the market mechanism, where producers will then sell at a price higher<br />than the normal price. It can be assumed the practice of ihtikar in trading includes acts that are very<br />immoral and also inhumane, because such trade practices create many disadvantages for human life.</p>