Wikipedia's article on fana, the Sufi concept of self-annihilation, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on fana is a community edited tertiary reference rather than a peer reviewed publication, hence the lower tier, though reasonable for the concept's standard, uncontested description. NotesWikipedia's article on fana in Sufism, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for the term's etymology, its relationship to baqa, its Quranic grounding, and the two named interpretive schools (Al-Junayd and Al-Ghazali's vision reading against Al-Bistami and Al-Hallaj's union reading), not for any contested doctrinal claim beyond what those named scholars are reported to have held.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 general references.
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