“An Inquiry into the Historical Evolution of the Signs of the Emergence of Imamiyyah Thought”

Among the Mahdavi’s teachings, the signs of the ultimate advent have a special place. These signs are predicted primarily by narrating the narrations of the innocents. A closer look at the narrations of the signs of the ultimate advent of narrative sources in earlier and later centuries reveals that the issues related to Imam Mahdi and the establishment of a global government are among those that were raised before his birth and afterwards. The time of Major Occultation has been dealt with. These narrations may have undergone a number of changes over the course of time due to some factors such as personal motivations, environmental factors, governmental pressures, and the phenomenon of deviant cults, which have been distorted, superseded, and defective. There seems to have been an increase in cases that have a prominent place in their investigation. This study can help to better understand these teachings in the chain of Mahdi issues by examining the sources of Shiite narrative in the early and later centuries.