These shaykhs were holy men critical in the process of reconciling Islamic beliefs with pre-Islamic belief systems; they often were adopted as "patron saints" of particular clans or tribal groups, thereby becoming their "founders."
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The universal dimension of this Servant of the Prophet, authenticates "Qutb"1 (pole of its time) was not long in appearing and one visited him from all the horizons, as it was the case of this Cherif of Médine, Mawlay Ahmad Tibri which made print specimens of "Masaalik-ul Jinaan" (a treaty of Sufism of the Sheik) or of this descendant of Abu Bakr Siddiq (khalif of Islam) which came from Mecca visit to the Holy Man.
Saint Austol (or Austolus) was a 6th-century Cornish holy man who lived for much of his life in Brittany.
Baba Dharam Dass is a holy man whose Tomb is located near the bank of a creek called (Deoka or Deokay or Degh) near Chawinda phatic back side of agricultural main office pasrur, the town of Pasrur near Sialkot in Punjab province of Pakistan.
But before he could realize his career plans, Bhau unexpectedly turned to spiritual interests following a visit to the tomb of a famous holy man, Tajuddin Baba, in Nagpur.
In the summer of 1930, as part of his research into the Native American perspective on the Ghost Dance movement, the poet and writer John Neihardt, already the Nebraska Poet Laureate, received permission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation with his two daughters to meet an Oglala holy man and shaman named Black Elk.
Hilda Neihardt (1916–2004) was one of her father John G. Neihardt's "comrades in adventure," and at the age of 15 accompanied him as "official observer" to meetings with Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose life stories were the basis for her father's book, Black Elk Speaks and for her own later works.
He was recognised in his lifetime as a holy man, a great pastor and missionary with extraordinary zeal for the preaching of the Gospel.
His service there followed in the tradition of fellow Belgian priest, Saint Damien, and his contributions were part of the research gathered by Gavan Daws for the definitive biography Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai.
Prior to partition in 1948 he toured Kashmir with Aziz Kashmiri, editor of the Ahmadiyya weekly paper in Srinagar, looking for evidence supporting the claim of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad made in 1899, that the Roza Bal shrine of the holy man Yuz Asaf in Srinagar is the grave of Jesus of Nazareth.
In The Guide, holy-man Raju fasts on the banks of the dry river Sarayu, praying for the rains to come.
There is a mosaic of Jesus seated in a meditation pose above a lotus like an Indian holy man.
Qazim Baba also known as Kasim Baba of Kostur was a 15th-century holy man of Albanian or Greek Macedonian origin.