The Great Leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah
This presentation was a project of History of Sub Continent. Dr Zabir Saeed Badar are supporting the "batch of 2019 BBA (Hons) Semester 7"
4. MAX WEBER THEORY OF
CHARISMA
Charismatic theory was defined by Weber as: “ Charismatic leaders promise
change in the future for the society and also change people’s attitudes and
values; in this way, charismatic authority is revolutionary in a way that
traditional and legal-rational authority are not. However, charisma is unstable
and deteriorates if the leader cannot produce the changes he promises or when
he confronts the contradictory logics and demands of the other types of
authority. There are particular ways–including search, revelation, designation,
or heredity–that charismatic successors are identified, but transferring
charismatic authority is difficult and not always successful.
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7. SUMMARY
Based on the concept of charisma formulated by Max Weber and developed by recent
writers, this second revised edition concentrates on ‘personality-related’ and ‘situational’ factors
that led to the emergence of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah as the charismatic leader of
Muslim India and sustained and strengthened him in that role to help create the separate state
of Pakistan. While a few authors have dubbed Jinnah as a charismatic leader, hardly any one has
defined or discussed the concept of charisma methodically or employed it systematically to
analyse his charisma and charismatic leadership. In this sense, the present study is distinct and
makes an original and unique contribution to the scholarly literature on Jinnah’s political
leadership. Dr Roger D. Long, a distinguished American historian on South Asia, thus
acknowledged: ‘Dr Hayat’s analysis of Jinnah as a charismatic figure fills an important lacuna
in the field’. Hence, this study will help interested, informed readers to see Jinnah in a new,
fuller, and refreshing light. They will see a new Jinnah: The Charismatic Leader!