Intended Meaning
Loyalty here means turning toward following or away from it; it is a human social relationship that a person chooses of their own will and it is not limited to a single form, but is embodied in multiple forms according to the level of belonging
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: Loyalty is an optional social relationship embodied in multiple forms.
- Key terms: loyalty, following, turning away, belonging, choice.
- Degree of centrality: central.
This atom defines loyalty as a relationship that a person chooses, not a single closed judgment. It also allows for multiple forms of it according to the different circles of belonging.
Links That Help Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, Draining the Sources of Terrorism
- The Civil State, Religion, and Authority
- Loyalty
- Mutual acquaintance and multiple belonging create a group without contradiction
Basis
- Supporting text: «Loyalty: turning toward following or leaving it by turning away; a human social and optional relationship, embodied in multiple forms according to the level of belonging».
Basis in the Book
- Book: Draining the Sources of Terrorism.
- Location: within the treatment of the concept of loyalty in the middle section of the book
- Type of basis: a near witness.
- Marker that helps verification: loyalty is a human social relationship
- Reading note: this passage is suitable as evidence because it states that loyalty is a human social relationship and can be understood as optional.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction that Shahrur relies on in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial Note
Suitable for linking between mutual acquaintance and multiple belonging.