A Study of Imam Mahdi's Communicative Status in the Occultation Era's Stories of Meeting with people, using Grimas Actiontial Model

The Occultation Period's stories of Imam Mahdi's meetings hold a valuable place among Shias. "Imam", as God's evidence, is considered to act as an intermediary between Him and mankind, a status that is definable at various levels. The study of Imam Mahdi's status in Meeting stories is what the researcher is investigating. To do this some communicative models which have organizational function have been utilized in order to provide a description of the stories. Besides a documentary scrutiny, we can analyze the stories from a narrative structure point of view. This research tries to borrow from narrative analysis from the standpoint of structuralism which is the same as the principal theoretical developments and a regard of Prop development process, and ultimately pursues the final model based on Grimas classification of narrative actions. This has been done determining the six fold action that underlies the analysis of each story. The overall results were analyzed on the basis of one of the communicative models, in which Imam Mahdi appeared with different roles, namely hero, assistant, sender,etc.