Queer companions : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan / Omar Kasmani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasmani, Omar, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, 1177-1274--Shrines.

Qalandar Lal Shahbaz.

Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander (Sehwan, Pakistan).

Sufis--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Sufis.

Sufism--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Sufism.

Fakirs--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Fakirs.

Sexual minority community--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Sexual minority community.

Ethnology--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Ethnology.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Pakistan--Sehwan.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

LGBTQ+ communities.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kasmani, Omar. Queer companions.

ISBN:

9781478022657

1478022655

9781478092599

1478092599

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.