The place of mentioning attributes and ethical behavior relating to ground-setting (of the Mahdis) Appearance in the content of (relevant) university textbooks in Iran

The study was undertaken aiming to analyze the status and characteristics of the ethical behavior for Imam Mahdi's ground-setting in the content of the university textbooks in Iran. The research method was descriptive and also content analysis and its approach is applied. The research sample consists of general course university textbooks that cover the year 1393 and is presented in the context of twenty credit hours for students. Based on their conformity to logic and the analytical study, four textbook have been chosen; "Rules of Life: Applied Ethics, " "Islamic Ethics: Principles and Concepts", "Family Ethics" and "Islamic Morality" have been targeted in the sample. Measuring instruments were researcher-made content analysis check lists, and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The main results of the study indicate that: 1. It is found that a total of 2, 720 times ground-setting behavior was mentioned in terms of the size, characteristics and behaviors associated with moral and conceptual factors in the books of the "Rules of life: Applied ethics», «of ethics Foundations concepts», «ethics family» and "Islamic morality" in the order presented above, as frequency of 667 or 24. 5 percent, frequency of 661or 24. 3 percent, frequency of 463 or 17 percent and frequency of 929 or 34. 2 percent. In the aspect of study, most attention is given to the aspect of the relationship with others with frequency of 1134with 41. 7 percent. The aspect of relationship with the cosmos, with 310frequency or 11. 4 percent is of the lowest frequency which has been noted in the study.