Zahid

Zahid is a given name for males. People named Zahid include:

In Sir Richard Burton's Kasidah the Zahid is defined as "the "Philister" of "respectable" belief" and contrasted with the Soofi "The Zahid is the literal believer in the letter of the Law, opposed to the Soofi, who believes in its spirit: hence the former is called a Zahiri (outsider), and the latter a Batini, an insider"