The Inspiration for Writing Makhzan-ol-Asrār and Eskandar-nāme by NIZāmi based on Action Discourse

The signs that direct the discourse of a narrative to create a core action in the central core and to reproduce intelligent and program-oriented meanings constitute the pattern of Greimas’ action discourse in the context of the narrative. The preface of Persian classics reflects the author's feelings in creating the work. This essay has examined the narrator's reasons for creating the narrative by exploring the discourse in the process of creating the narrative and the reception of the verbal signs in the prefaces of the verses of Nizāmi Ganjavi ‘s Makhzan-ol-Asrār and Iskandernāme. This essay explained the manner of discourse action in the opening of these Masnavies using a descriptive-analytical approach to illustrate the composition of these poems based on Greimas’s discourse and relying on the study of the signs that refer to the conditions of the Nizāmi in the preface during the creation of the works. This study investigated the evolution of Nizmi's states using Greimas' action discourse theory and extracted and analyzed the pattern of action-value and action-prescriptive discourses in the central core of the preface of the ethical and didactic works of this narrative poet by extracting discourse signs.