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Queer Companions - Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Paperback)
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Queer Companions - Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Paperback)
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In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the
construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important
site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the
anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways
in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the
state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy.
Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a
religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of
thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in
Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place's
patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster
unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context
where religious shrines are entangled in the state's
infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further
entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public
forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani
contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making
with saints.
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