Comparing the four elements (water, wind, earth, fire) in the thoughts and ideas of Esmaeiliyeh and Ferdowsi

This study shows the connection between Ferdowsi and Ismailie by examining the thoughts and ideas of Ismaili and Atar Ferdowsi (Shahnameh). This connection has been made by examining and analyzing the four elements (water, wind, soil, fire) and has examined how the views of Ferdowsi and Ismaili thought are in conflict from the perspective of Akhshijan. Ferdowsi's Shahnameh has a lot of income from mixing with Akhshijan with rituals and myths older than it and has had a great impact on the beliefs and religions after it.

The current research is a basic and applied research. The work method is analytical-descriptive and the method of collecting information is library.

Ismailie thought has been deeply used in the beliefs of the four Akhshijans. Because in Ismaili belief, the four elements are repeated and each of them has a role in the hierarchy of cosmic creation. In addition to the structural kinship of the Gnostic and Ismaili religions, which in their approaches to living are limited to reason and asceticism, we can mention such ideas as the contradiction between ignorance and knowledge and the instability of the world.

Ismailie thought, inspired by older mirrors such as Manichaeism and Gnosticism, has a cosmological and fundamental approach to the four elements, as well as a commonality in the reflection of these concepts in both.