Sheikh Shalbuz, recorded by Volkova as the Shikhshalbaraz-baba pir, is venerated at a shrine and mosque in Khinalug. Legend makes him a pious scholar who came from Iraq in the thirteenth century, taught Islam, Arabic and Persian in the village madrasa, was credited with foresight and the power to heal by touch, and whose tomb was found to contain an old library. Villagers still pray and make vows at the shrine, especially during Ramadan. Sources give his name in several forms, and it is uncertain whether the Khinalug saint is to be identified with the Lezgin Sheikh Shalbuz for whom Mount Shalbuzdag is named.