Bahar

Bahar was a woman of Christian origin who became an umm walad, a freed concubine, of Sultan Ismail I of Granada. Her only child was Ismail's third son Yusuf, born in the Alhambra on 29 June 1318; he lived in her house until 1333, when at fifteen he took the throne as Yusuf I after his brother Muhammad IV was assassinated. His reign and his son's were later seen as Granada's golden age.

The vizier Ibn al-Khatib praised her good deeds, chastity and equanimity. In 1350, with Yusuf sick, she gave Ibn Battuta money for his stay when he sought an audience.