In the Islamic model the central authorities were not positively hostile to trust on any theological principle, but were simply intolerant, within the very considerable limits of their capacity, of the emergence of coherent trust-engendering groups which would pose a threat to them. They would keep such groups at bay, but they could not destroy them.

XREF: Connects to broader historical analyses of how state power interacts with civil society and social capital formations.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 2062