Islamic universalism fortifies clan cohesion but cannot block patronage states

Evidence

Islamic universalism has not engendered any such individual and unconditional trustworthiness; or if it has, political conditions have not allowed it to bear full fruit. It has, however, acted as a kind of fortifying agent to the collective trustworthiness of clan cohesion. It thus transmutes tribal asabiyya into an agency of state formation. But it does not seem capable of preventing that state from being patronage ridden, and inhibiting the emergence of capitalism proper; nor does it stop its atomized burghers from being politically supine. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2030

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast case to Weberian Protestantism — parallels to the blindness novel’s tribal/clan cohesion vs. universal trust distinction the reader is building.
• DEFINE: Introduces asabiyya as tribal solidarity transmuted into state formation through religious universalism.