: religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan Kasmani, Omar. creator Omar Kasmani. text Durham : Duke University Press , 2022 monographic eng

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xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, maps :24cm. "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" 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 / Omar Kasmani. Ethnology Fakirs Pakistan Sehwan Pakistan Sehwan Sexual minority community 297.435 KAS 9781478018032 : International Book Distributors : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 230601 20230601101213.0