sociological analysis of socio - political crises of alavi's government

in analysing the alavi's government's problems and ineffeiencies, the author has based his argument on sociological theories. two theoretical bases of charismatic authorative and the theory of social cleavages have been utilized by the author. according to the first school of thought some of the problems of the alavi`s era (after the prophet mohammad had died) had been in result of the interactions between the new religious authoriety and the arab traditional authority. therefore three branches of sunnite, shi`at, and khavarjites (seceders) are the products of the proposed interaction. in this regard we can trace some of the alavi`s government problems to charismatic authorative charactor of imam ali' the second theory claims that creation of these branches was the result of existing social cleavages within the newly foremed islamic society. according to this theory by analysing social cleavages of that society we can conclude that interations of these cleavages are the foundation of most of the society socio - political developments.