from explanation to "anti-explanation": challenges in conceptualization of a revolution

not only place and time of iran islamic revolution occurrence was m anticipatable, but also it has some different features in comparison to othe (third world) revolutions. because o this features, three decades of study o this event characterized with a kind of revision in coceptualization an explanation of revoution. in other words, islamic revolution challenged routin explanations, so that kinds of structural, organizational and culture explanations alternatively replaced each other as dominant analytic, frameworks, this article seeks to show how these developments take place.