Escaping Plato’s Cave as a Mystical Experience: A Survey in Sufi Literature
Religions October 14, 2022 Heydar Shadi
This paper puts forward a mystical reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave 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 the sun/truth and becoming a philosopher; and the necessity of returning to the cave, have significant similarities...