TY - BOOK ID - 130079834 TI - Queer companions : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan PY - 2022 SN - 9781478018032 1478018038 9781478015413 1478015411 PB - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - QUEER -- 572 KW - ISLAM -- 572 KW - Sufis KW - Sufism KW - Fakirs KW - Sexual minority community KW - Ethnology KW - Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages KW - Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, - 1177-1274 KW - Soufisme KW - Fakirs (soufisme) KW - Minorités sexuelles KW - Théorie queer KW - Anthropologie KW - Religion KW - Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, KW - Shrines. KW - Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander (Sehwan, Pakistan) KW - Minorités sexuelles KW - Théorie queer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:130079834 AB - 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. ER -