In Islamic revolution of Iran effective role of Imam Khomeini’s leadership caused many thinkers to interpret this revolution based on Max Weber’s theory of charismatic authority. However, due to serious and fundamental distinction between western politics and Imam Khomeini’s movement in bases and concepts, the author believes the distinctions and contradictions have led to deviation and underestimation of Imam Khomeini’s movement in analysis provided based on western politics. Therefore, criticizing Weber’s viewpoint about Iranian revolution and stating characteristics of Imam Khomeini’s leadership, this article has concluded that it is impossible to analyze his leadership based on Weber’s theory of charismatic authority. Instead, non-individuality and rationality of his leadership in Islamic revolution of Iran have been noticed demonstrating the Islamic nature of his leadership while emphasizing the factor of his religious authority and his scientific character, rather than his individual character, with a pivotal role of “jurisprudence” and “justice”. 

Analysts of the Islamic Revolution have presented many analyses based on different theories and approaches. Meanwhile, some have used Max Weber`s theory of charismatic authority and, on this basis have viewed Imam Khomeini as a charismatic leader. The present study, aiming at a typology of all types of presented analyses of the Islamic Revolution on the basis of Weber's theory of charisma; it seeks to answer the question: how many types of charismatic analyses have been used to study Islamic revolution? During the study, the presented charismatic analyses of the Islamic Revolution have been studied typologically, on the basis of centered figures in the types, and explained in three groups of adaptation, restoration, and criticism. This research has been carried out with a synthetic, descriptive-analytical method.