Omar Kasmani is a post-doctoral research associate in social and cultural anthropology at the CRC 1171 Affective Societiesat Freie Universität, Berlin. His work pursues critical notions of public intimacy, religious affect and post-migrant be/longing – a research practice that is situated across the study of Islamic life-worlds and queer and affect theory. He teaches on religion and urban geographies with a focus on queer epistemologies, Sufi devotional cultures and contemporary South Asia. His first monograph Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan is forthcoming with Duke University Press.