found: Work cat.: Martin, D.L. Al-Fanaʾ (mystical annihilation of the soul) and al-banāʾ (subsistence of the soul) in the work of Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd al-Baghdadi, 1999.
found: Encyc. of Islam, May 11, 2008(Baḳāʾ wa-Fanāʾ; the Sufi terms fanāʾ "passing away, effacement" and baḳāʾ "subsistence, survival", refer to the stages of the development of the mystic in the path of gnosis)
found: Muʻjam lughat al-fuqahāʾ ... 1996(fanāʾ, annihilation)
found: Wikipedia, May 23, 2008(Fanaa (Sufism); the Sufi term for extinction, meaning to annihilate the self while still physically alive, similar to the concept of nirvana in Buddhism)
