Al-Nasir Faraj or Nasir-ad-Din Faraj ( Circassian: Фэрадж ан-Насир) (

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: ; r. 1399–1412 CE) 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

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in July 1399 with the title ''Al-Nasir''. He was only thirteen years old when he became Sultan on the sudden death of his father. His reign was marked by anarchy, pandemonium and chaos with invasions of

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(Timur Leng, or Timur Beg Gurkani), including the sack of Damascus in 1400, incessant rebellions in

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, endless conflicts with the Emirs of Syria (with the Sultan and also amongst themselves), along with

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which reduced the population of the kingdom to one-third. In September 1405, Faraj was afraid from the surrounding conspiracies, so he escaped his rule and was replaced briefly by his brother

Izz ad-Din Abd al-Aziz Izz ad-Din Abd al-Aziz ( ar, المنصور عز الدين عبد العزيز بن برقوق; d. 20 September 1406) was the younger brother of An-Nasir Faraj and the son of Barquq. He was briefly a Mamluk sultan of Egypt Egypt ( ar, م� ...

, then he regained his position in November the same year. During the end of his reign he became a tyrannical ruler which eventually led him into his seventh and final conflict with the Syrian Emirs at Baalbek. Defeated in battle he fled to the

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. Unable to escape, he surrendered and on May 23, 1412 he was stabbed to death in his prison cell by a hired assassin. The Emirs placed on the throne as a temporary measure Caliph Al-Musta'in Billah. 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 Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi ( ar, جمال الدين يوسف بن الأمير سيف الدين تغري بردي), or Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrī-Birdī, or Ibn Taghribirdi (2 February 1411— 5 June 1470; ...

. After Faraj's death, she married Inal Nauruzi. One of his concubines was Lâ Aflaha man Zalama. She gave birth to Faraj's son, Ghars ad-Din Khalil. Another concubine was Thuraiya. She gave birth to Faraj's daughter, Khawand Asiya. Another daughter of Faraj named Khawand Satita married Sidi Ibrahim, son of Sultan

Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh ( Circassian: Шеихъ ал-МуIэед) ( ar, المؤيد سيف الدين أبو النصر شيخ المحمودي; 1369 – 13 January 1421) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 6 November 1412 to 13 January 1421. Fam ...

. She died in 1416. Another daughter, Khawand Shakra, married Amir Jarbash al-Muhammadi and had a son, Nasir ad-Din Muhammad. She died in 1482.

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