This article takes up as its control issue the growing rift between the official Is¬lamic ideology and public life and practices. The main argument is that other cri¬ses such as those of legitimation, participation and efficacy are rooted in a more fundamental crisis i.e. the failure to neconstruct public practices and self-under¬standings according to the tenets of the ideology of the state.
In the first section variods data and information has been employed in order to depict the various aspects of the fundamental crisis of identity-building. In the second section the consequences of this fundamental crisis for general political life have been explained.
Employing the control theoritical concept of anomy from the Durkheinian socio-logical apparatus, the article surveys the major contours of coltural, moral and political life in the country. In the conclusion the probable impacts of social anomy for the shape of the political system in the near future have been analysed.