# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bahira
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:52:58.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bahira"
name: "Bahira"
slug: "bahira"
description: "A Christian monk who, according to Islamic tradition, recognized the young Muhammad as a future prophet during a caravan stop in Syria — though the story exists in conflicting versions and has been called invented by historians ancient and modern."
tagline: "6th-century monk said to have prophecied of Muhammad"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Young_Muhammad_meets_the_monk_Bahira_-_from_Jami'_al-Tawarikh.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "600"
deathDate: "700"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.048256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "religious-figure"
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "বহিরা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bahira"
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    title: "Bahira"
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    title: "Bahira"
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    title: "Bahira"
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    title: "Бахира"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bahira"
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    title: "بحيرى"
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    title: "بحيرى الراهب"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bahira appears in several Islamic accounts as a monk who encountered Muhammad on a merchant journey with his uncle Abu Talib. The tradition holds that Bahira saw signs of prophethood in the boy and foretold his destiny. The details shift between tellings, and the contradictions eventually drew skepticism: medieval scholars like al-Dhahabi rejected the story outright, and modern historians consider it legend rather than record. Bahira endures not as history but as a narrative device — the outside witness who sees what others missed.