Answer-layer measurement · by subject
Fana and the unity of being
A handful of reference works carry most of it, with en.wikipedia.org the most frequent at 2 of 30 links, and no single source dominating.
Perplexity · captured 2026-09-21 · 30 links · 23 domains
Not one link went to a primary-text library. The tradition's own texts were described rather than shown.
2 of 30 links came from forums, blogs or document uploads.
Hekhal did not surface for any of these questions on this date, although it publishes the primary material listed below. That absence is the measurement working: it is recorded the same way anyone else's would be.
Why this subject looks like this
Fana and baqa are technical terms in a tradition that argued about them for centuries in Arabic and Persian, and wahdat al-wujud is a phrase Ibn Arabi himself did not use, applied to his thought by later readers and disputed ever since. Encyclopedias handle the definitions; the disputes are where the meaning lives. An answer assembled from definitions will state the terms correctly and still leave a reader unable to see why anyone argued about them, which is the part a sourced edition can supply and a summary cannot.
The questions, and what each one returned
what is fana in sufism
15 links · 12 domains · largest single source britannica.com at 27%
britannica.com (4), academic.oup.com, en.wikipedia.org, iranicaonline.org, journal.unisza.edu.my, jurnal.uinsyahada.ac.id, kids.britannica.com, networkologies.wordpress.com, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reddit.com, thecontemplativelife.org, theses.gla.ac.uk.
Composition: encyclopedia or reference work 7, journal, press or university 4, forum, blog or upload 2, other site 2. Absent entirely: primary-text library.
what did ibn arabi mean by wahdat al-wujud
15 links · 12 domains · largest single source plato.stanford.edu at 20%
plato.stanford.edu (3), journals.umt.edu.pk (2), academia.edu, en.wikipedia.org, ibn.com, ibnarabisociety.org, ibnsinafoundation.org, jstor.org, merriam-webster.com, pantheonica.com, sufiphilosophy.org, texasibn.com.
Composition: other site 6, encyclopedia or reference work 5, journal, press or university 4. Absent entirely: primary-text library.
The sources that appeared exactly once here
academia.edu, academic.oup.com, ibn.com, ibnarabisociety.org, ibnsinafoundation.org, iranicaonline.org, journal.unisza.edu.my, jstor.org, jurnal.uinsyahada.ac.id, kids.britannica.com, merriam-webster.com, networkologies.wordpress.com, pantheonica.com, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reddit.com, sufiphilosophy.org, texasibn.com, thecontemplativelife.org, theses.gla.ac.uk.
19 of the 23 domains on this subject appeared a single time. On a subject whose primary texts are old, multilingual and largely out of copyright, that is the space an accessible edition is competing for.
Every source that answered
- Encyclopedia or reference work · 12
- Journal, press or university · 8
- Forum, blog or upload · 2
- Other site · 8
What Hekhal publishes on this subject
Free to read, openly licensed, and free to assign. Every edition shows the language it was rendered from and names the edition it rests on.
What this does not show
Method and raw data: protocol.json · the capture, both CC-BY 4.0. Run it on an engine we did not and send the file; reruns are published beside this one, not merged into it.