Escaping Plato’s Cave as a Mystical Experience: A Survey in Sufi Literature

Escaping Plato’s Cave as a Mystical Experience: A Survey in Sufi Literature

This paper puts forward a mystical reading of Plato’s <i>Allegory of the Cave</i> by comparing it with some allegories from Sufi literature, Islamic mystical tradition. The paper argues that the determining parts of the allegory, such as escaping the cave as the world of shadows; seeing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heydar Shadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
Plato’s cave
Rumi’s <i>prison</i>
the allegory of <i>dying before dying</i>
the allegory of <i>hunting the shadows of a flying bird</i>
Pierre Hadot
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/10/970

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