Non-Eurocentric View on Classical Sociologists; Examining Shariati's Reading of Weber

Could we talk about Shariati's reading of Max Weber? Many believe that Shariati was not a sociologist. His work is considered to have had a negative impact on the development of sociological imagination in Iran. Shariati's approach to Weber can be examined in two ways: one is to what extent has Shariati been influenced by Weber and could he be considered as a Weberian sociologist? The second way of dealing with Shariati and his relation to Max Weber could be that Shariati had a "Shariatiesque reading of Weber that was inconsistent with Eurocentric readings? Is Shariati's understanding of Weber consistent with the text or is Shariati's Weber a Shariatiesque construct? Questions like these that deal with hermeneutics need to be analyzed in depth.