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Author Kasmani, Omar, author.

Title Queer companions : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan / Omar Kasmani
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents On Coming Close -- Infrastructures of the Imaginal -- Her Stories in His Durbar -- In Other Guises, Other Futures -- Love in a Time of Celibacy -- Fakirs, Fairies, and the Dead -- Queer Forward Slash Religion
Summary "Queer Companions is an ethnographic account of Sufi fakirs at Pakistan's most important Sufi site, the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander. Omar Kasmani argues that these pilgrims' affective connections to the site's patron saint, who lived and died in the thirteenth century, lead them to queer forms of living. While some of the ethnographic interlocutors in the book are themselves LGBTQI, and a few are women who trouble the gendered ordering of the shrine, Kasmani attends to the queer forms of relationality, intimacy, and affinity that the site allows for rather than on the individual identities of the people themselves. He shows how their relation to the world is altered by embodied and imaginative modes of moving away from social objects and expectations and toward the saintly. As the site is a state-run national heritage site, Kasmani considers how this form of queer living brings individuals, society, and the state together through a public architecture of intimacy. In tracing the veering paths of these religious figures, Kasmani demonstrates how this form of intimacy might offer not a withdrawal from the world, but rather a different kind of queer worldmaking"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, 1177-1274 -- Shrines
SUBJECT Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, 1177-1274 -- Shrines
Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, 1177-1274 fast
Subject Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander (Sehwan, Pakistan)
Sufis -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
Sufism -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
Fakirs -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
Sexual minority community -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
Ethnology -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Pakistan -- Sehwan
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnology
Fakirs
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
Sexual minority community
Shrines
Sufis
Sufism
Pakistan -- Sehwan
Genre/Form Queer people
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021030523
ISBN 1478022655
9781478092599
1478092599
9781478022657