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An-Nasir Faraj
Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq in Cairo
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
ReignJune 1399 – 20 September 1405
PredecessorBarquq
SuccessorIzz ad-Din Abd al-Aziz
Reign28 November 1405 – 23 May 1412
PredecessorIzz ad-Din Abd al-Aziz
SuccessorAbu’l-Faḍl Abbas Al-Musta'in bi'llah
Bornc. 1386
Died23 May 1412(1412-05-23) (aged 25–26)
Damascus
Spouse
  • Khawand Fatima
  • Lâ Aflaha man Zalama
  • Thuraiya
Issue
  • Ghars ad-Din Khalil
  • Khawand Asiya
  • Khawand Satita
  • Khawand Shakra
FatherSayf-ad-Din Barquq
MotherKhawand Shirin
ReligionSunni Islam

Al-Nasir Faraj or Nasir-ad-Din Faraj (Arabic: الناصر زين الدين فرج; r. 1399–1405, 1405–1412) also Faraj ibn Barquq was born in 1386 and succeeded his father Sayf-ad-Din Barquq as the second Sultan of the Burji dynasty of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt in July 1399 with the title Al-Nasir.[1] He was only thirteen years old when he became Sultan on the sudden death of his father.[1] His reign was marked by anarchy, pandemonium and chaos with the Timurid invasions of Tamerlane (Timur Leng, or Timur Beg Gurkani), including the sack of Aleppo and the sack of Damascus in 1400, incessant rebellions in Cairo, endless conflicts with the Emirs of Syria (with the Sultan and also amongst themselves),[2] along with plague and famine which reduced the population of the kingdom to one-third.[1]

In September 1405, Faraj was afraid of the surrounding conspiracies, so he escaped his reign after emir Saad al-Din bin Ghurab convinced him and was replaced briefly by his brother Izz ad-Din Abd al-Aziz, then he regained his position in November the same year by Saad al-Din.[1]

During the end of his reign he became a tyrannical ruler which eventually led him into his seventh and final conflict with the Emirs at Baalbek. Defeated in battle, he fled to the Citadel of Damascus.[1] Unable to escape, he surrendered and on May 23, 1412 he was stabbed to death in his prison cell by a hired assassin.[1] The Emirs placed on the throne as a temporary measure Caliph Al-Musta'in Billah.[1] Faraj was buried in Bab al-Faradis cemetery in Damascus.

Family

One of his wives was Khawand Fatima, the sister of the Islamic historian Ibn Taghribirdi.[3][4] After Faraj's death, she married Inal Nauruzi.[3] One of his concubines was Lâ Aflaha man Zalama. She gave birth to Faraj's son, Ghars ad-Din Khalil.[5] Another concubine was Thuraiya. She gave birth to Faraj's daughter, Khawand Asiya.[6] Another daughter of Faraj named Khawand Satita married Sidi Ibrahim, son of Sultan Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh. She died in 1416.[7] Another daughter, Khawand Shakra, married Amir Jarbash al-Muhammadi and had a son, Nasir ad-Din Muhammad.[3] She died in 1482.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Muir, William (1896). The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, A. D. Smith, Elder. pp. 121−128.
  2. ^ Onimus, Clément (2019). Les maîtres du jeu : Pouvoir et violence politique à l'aube du sultanat mamlouk circassien (784-815/1382-1412) (in French). Éditions de la Sorbonne. ISBN 9791035105440.
  3. ^ a b c Taghrībirdī, A.M.Y.I.; Popper, W. (1960). History of Egypt, 1382-1469 A.D. University of California Press. p. 15, 56.
  4. ^ Massoud, S. (2007). The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period. Islamic History and Civilization. Brill. p. 61. ISBN 978-90-474-1979-2.
  5. ^ Leslau, W. (1958). The Verb in Harari: (South Ethiopic). University of California Press. p. 120. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  6. ^ University of California, Berkeley (1960). University of California Publications in Semitic Philology. History of Egypt, 1382-1469 A.D. University of California Press. p. 165.
  7. ^ D'hulster, Kristof; Steenbergen, Jo Van. "Family Matters: The Family-In-Law Impulse in Mamluk Marriage Policy". Annales Islamologiques. 47: 61–82. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  8. ^ Ghersetti, A. (2016). Al-Suyūṭī, a Polymath of the Mamlūk Period: Proceedings of the themed day of the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, June 23, 2014). Islamic History and Civilization. Brill. p. 56. ISBN 978-90-04-33452-6.
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