Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's…
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Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Conjoining queer theory with 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.
In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state's infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a 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.