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Mauro Valdinoci, « Nile Green. The Faqir and the Subalterns: Mapping the Holy Man in Colonial South Asia », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.40631
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To refer to the figure of the faqīr, typically characterized as a renunciatory, mendicant with anticonformist behavior, the author introduces the word “polivestiary” for “those holy men and saints whose various groups of followers symbolically ‘clothe’ them in ways reflecting the group’s own religious tradition” (p. 59). This article criticizes the dualistic Hindu/Muslim model that ignores the variety of the religious ideas held by these holy men’s followers. By claiming that the polivestiary...