Max Webber’s Legitimacy and Iranian Political System after Islamic Revolution 1979

The aim of this study is to explore the concept of Max Weber regarding Legitimacy in prospect of traditional, Charismatic and Legal-Rational in relation to Ayatollah Khomeini who was the founder of Iranian Islamic Revolution 1979. This study tries to explore the returning to Weber can elucidate several facts about the legitimacy. By this paper tried to show that how much similarity of political system of Iran to the western context (Weberian) with demarcations of power. The system is unique as its roots of its legitimacy are traditional, charismatic and rational-legalistic. Today, Iranian political structure was developed by the teachings and models of Imam Khomeini which consists on the combination of Islamic theocracy and with bits of democracy on the thoughts of Max Weber. Max Weber considers the importance of strong legitimacy for political order’s constancy. The concept of Max Weber about legal legitimacy relating to democratic legitimation chucks the new light on the theoretical legitimacy discrepancy in transnational power that sorts it to look less histrionic. Historic, investigative and qualitative methods are used in this paper