Entry
This entry does not presently establish a fixed technical meaning for «the people» in Shahrur, because the collection contains no text from his books that supports this. It is part of the Shahrur Glossary, and the subject can be traced within Shahrur’s Major Topics and Shared Concepts.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The attached evidence contains no quotation or raw context establishing a definition by Shahrur of the term «the people». Accordingly, statements that make it a group united by a state, an economic system, or law are provisionally suspended until they are supported by a documented text.
Atlas Explanation
The minimum methodological requirement here is to distinguish the term’s title from its definition: the existence of an entry named «the people» does not by itself establish its technical content or its relation to terms such as group, mutual acquaintance, or belonging.
Conclusion
No reliable lexical distinction can be constructed between «the people» and other terms denoting group and belonging before gathering the occurrences of the term in Shahrur’s texts and comparing their contexts.
Open Question
In which texts does Shahrur explicitly define «the people» or connect it to the state, law, or economics? Does he draw an explicit distinction between it and «the group» or other forms of belonging?