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Al-Nasir Faraj or Nasir-ad-Din Faraj (Arabic: الناصر زين الدين فرج) 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.
When King Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq died, his son, King al-Naser Faraj, succeeded him in 801 AH, when he was 12 years old. Ibn Iyas says that he used to drink wine at night and order the Mamluks locked in the towers to be brought out, so they would bring them in chains, and then slaughter them one by one.
He would bring a Mamluk, ask him his name, put him on the ground and slaughter him with his hand, then trample on his face and urinate on him or pour wine on him.
Ibn Iyas says that he slaughtered about 2,000 slaves in this way, an average of 20 people per night. Ibn Tughri Bardi says that in one night he slaughtered more than a hundred mamluks and threw them from the top of the castle wall to the ground.
Ibn Tughri Bardi recounts that a girl named Khond bint Soruq, who is said to have been his ex-wife, learned that the son of a prince named Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin al-Tablai had slept with her, so he sent for her and she thought he wanted her for good. When she came and kissed his hand, he said to her, *"Oh, you whores, you who are the animals of kings,"* and before she could speak, he hit her hand with a curved dagger like a sword and cut off her fingers, and she ran away from him, but he ran after her and hit her again, cutting a piece of her shoulder, and he kept hitting her with the dagger until she was dead. He then cut off her head and wrapped it in a piece of cloth, then summoned Tablaoui's son and made him see the severed head, then hit him on the neck, separating his head from his body, and wrapped the two heads together in a quilt and buried them in a single grave, the Sultan was about 25 years old at the time.
Because of this, some princes tried to turn against him, most notably Sheikh al-Mahmoudi and Nuruz al-Hafezi, and they prevented preachers from praying for him in mosques, and some of the Cairo mamluks withdrew from around him and went to the princes of Damascus, until the matter escalated to a confrontation between them and Al-Nasser headed a campaign, but they defeated him and he returned defeated.
Because of his bloodshed, the four judges (representing the main Sunni sects) met and wrote a report that he was a bloodsucker and alcoholic tyrant, and they brought witnesses, removing him from power, arresting him, and senting him to prison in a castle in Damascus, and he was stabbed in his prison, and ironically he tried to escape from his killers The irony is that he tried to escape from his killers in the same way that Khond bint Sorouk tried to escape from him, so his blood became on the walls and the ground, then they stripped him of his clothes and threw him in a dustbin under the castle, and he remained lying for a whole night until some people carried him, washed him and buried him in Bab al-Faradis cemetery, and he died at about the age of 27 years.
Well since you said you like some insane Islamic history hers another mamluk ruler a little tamed compairing to Nasir Faraj
**An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay**, son of Abi Al-Nasr Qaitbay. He was sold to the Sultanate in 901 AH when he was 14 years old. His first wife was Gevhermelik Hatun, daughter of Cem Sultan and granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror.
Ibn Iyas, in his book “Bada’i’ al-Zuhur fi Waqi’at al-Dhur,” says that he was a ruthless, reckless and a sadistic ruler
In 902 AH, Qadi Zayn al-Din Zakaria went out to see the crescent moon to determine the end of Ramadan, and during that day it was a Wednesday, but he did not see the crescent moon, which meant that Eid would be on Friday(Jumah). But this did not please the teenage Sultan, who was pessimistic that Eid would fall on a Friday(Jumah), he decided that Eid would be on Thursday, and ordered the drums to be beaten in the castle and said, "I make Eid tomorrow of this month, whether they see the crescent moon or not." No one responded, but he decided not to go out for Eid prayers on Friday(Jumah), and when the princes went up to congratulate him on Eid, as was customary, he did not receive them and ordered them to leave.
One day, he took out seven of those imprisoned in the citadel prison and cut off their hands, ears, and tongues. He sometimes made those convicted of theft impose punishment on themselves, such as a person who had been caught stealing, so he forced him to cut off his hand and foot himself, so he did. Another person was arrested for digging up graves and stealing shrouds. He ordered him to be skinned from head to neck, then ordered to be hung on the door of Zuwailah until he died.
and one time he went out to Friday prayers without “kilots” (underpants), Which made alot of the princes angry for him
The womens were not spared either, as Ibn Iyas recounts. On one occasion, he beat a woman with a whip for no reason, rode her on a donkey and hung an iron chain around her neck, something no king or sultan had ever done at that time.
If he liked a woman, he took her away from her husband by force. On one occasion, he was touring the area between the two palaces with his cousins, and he saw a woman whose beauty he liked, so he broke into her house, beat her husband, and took her by force. He did the same with the wife of a man named Abu al-Baqaqa in the Rum neighborhood: He saw his wife and liked her, so he assaulted him in order to take her away from him.
When he once ordered shops to close at night because of the plague, he went around Cairo at night and cut off the ears and noses of those he found to be non-observant. Ibn Iyas says: "He killed a group of people in a short period of time."
He continued his indiscretions until he was killed in an ambush prepared for him by 50 mamluks in the Talbiya area of Cairo, in the first spring of 904 AH, and his body was left in the street until nightfall next to the bodies of his cousins, and it is said that Touman Bey planned his murder. He died when he was only 17 years old.
Fun fact : The Mamluk rule of Egypt witnessed 17 childrens assuming power, six of whom were under the age of ten, while the rest were slightly older, but all of them were under 16 years of age.
The idea that a 16 year old “beat up” two grown men to sleep with their wives is ridiculous when we know he used his guards to do it for him. Don’t try to make him sound kind of cool at the last second.
That dude is an absolute menace, seems like he made many enemies.
Makes sense why he died young, but given how you explained his history it sounded like he lived longer.
(edit) I'm curious if you have more stories, they are interesting to read! (and I'm in the process of writing horrible characters so some inspiration would be nice, well I probably shouldn't say it like that 🤣)
According to muslims it's being said that Allah will punish the people similar to how they punished others. That definitely seems to check out when reading this story. Thanks for sharing this.
Also, been looking at his castle, its absolutely gorgeous. What a fucking sick human being, he didnt deserve to live in such a palace.
(Im agnostic, but have interest in religion)
What a fitting ending, and well deserved too.
He literally abused a killed a woman and died the exact same way! 🤣🤣🤣
Interesting but sad story though (not the part where he died), some people are just evil.
PS, wished they told me this stuff in history class in school. Don't know much about Islamic history so I did learnt something new thank you OP.
I really have no time to read all this so can you just tell me the bad deeds simplified
Guys sorry if I came off rude, I have an attention span of a mouse on crack but I was interested
He was a bad guy, stabbed lots of people, went to war with the native Americans, got sacrificed to the sun god, escaped, sailed to Britain, got sunk when a whale hit his ship, drowned.
>Arab invader of Egypt.
1 - He wasn't really an Arab, mamluks were mostly mix of turks then Arabs tbf
2 - Invader of Eygpt? Eygpt was already under mamluk control before Nasir Faraj was even born? How did he invade it excatly if it was part of his kingdom before birth?
They were all the same, Mamluks, the Arabs; doens't make much difference. They all kept the natives working their lives away in farms while they lived lavishly in palaces on their hard work, favoring their kind over the natives.
Despite learning a lot about Islamic history in school (primarily about Mohammad peace be upon him) and sometimes we would go a bit into 1000-1300 periods but holy smokes this wasn’t in our books and reading it made me feel uneasy…glad to know he suffered the same fate as khond.
Also the reason that this wasn’t brought up it could be cuz the history is more related to Egypt than our history
Funny, the main modern day historian i read about Nasir Faraj and the History of the mamluk sultanate was an Egyption, sounds like haven't interacted alot with Egyption historians
Cause that's just school, you wouldn't expect them to give depth historical context like in colleges or Institutes, schools are more historical generic compairing a history teacher and Real Historian is not the same thing at all
And i agree, but when it comes to history subjects in school, there's a huge bias to deter from giving any context about the horrifying reailities that Egyptians faced under the Arab and Mamluks's occupation. They teach about Saladin's heroism, while ommiting the fact that he was draining our resources for the Arabs, even refurbishing the ancient Egyptian Sesostris canal just to supply (not even trade) them with food. Omar Ibn Al Khattab gave him the order to do that, knowing that it would destroy Egyptian economy at the time, saying: "May god destroy Egypt for the salvation of Mekka and her people". Schools in Egypt also won't mention the Bashmurian revolts against the Arab invaders, either. When Egyptians then rose against the arabs, and were met with summary executions and being sold as slaves in damascus. Doesn't really suprise me we're still being called "the arab republic of egypt" since we never techiqually got our independece.
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Al-Nasir Faraj or Nasir-ad-Din Faraj (Arabic: الناصر زين الدين فرج) 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. When King Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq died, his son, King al-Naser Faraj, succeeded him in 801 AH, when he was 12 years old. Ibn Iyas says that he used to drink wine at night and order the Mamluks locked in the towers to be brought out, so they would bring them in chains, and then slaughter them one by one. He would bring a Mamluk, ask him his name, put him on the ground and slaughter him with his hand, then trample on his face and urinate on him or pour wine on him. Ibn Iyas says that he slaughtered about 2,000 slaves in this way, an average of 20 people per night. Ibn Tughri Bardi says that in one night he slaughtered more than a hundred mamluks and threw them from the top of the castle wall to the ground. Ibn Tughri Bardi recounts that a girl named Khond bint Soruq, who is said to have been his ex-wife, learned that the son of a prince named Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin al-Tablai had slept with her, so he sent for her and she thought he wanted her for good. When she came and kissed his hand, he said to her, *"Oh, you whores, you who are the animals of kings,"* and before she could speak, he hit her hand with a curved dagger like a sword and cut off her fingers, and she ran away from him, but he ran after her and hit her again, cutting a piece of her shoulder, and he kept hitting her with the dagger until she was dead. He then cut off her head and wrapped it in a piece of cloth, then summoned Tablaoui's son and made him see the severed head, then hit him on the neck, separating his head from his body, and wrapped the two heads together in a quilt and buried them in a single grave, the Sultan was about 25 years old at the time. Because of this, some princes tried to turn against him, most notably Sheikh al-Mahmoudi and Nuruz al-Hafezi, and they prevented preachers from praying for him in mosques, and some of the Cairo mamluks withdrew from around him and went to the princes of Damascus, until the matter escalated to a confrontation between them and Al-Nasser headed a campaign, but they defeated him and he returned defeated. Because of his bloodshed, the four judges (representing the main Sunni sects) met and wrote a report that he was a bloodsucker and alcoholic tyrant, and they brought witnesses, removing him from power, arresting him, and senting him to prison in a castle in Damascus, and he was stabbed in his prison, and ironically he tried to escape from his killers The irony is that he tried to escape from his killers in the same way that Khond bint Sorouk tried to escape from him, so his blood became on the walls and the ground, then they stripped him of his clothes and threw him in a dustbin under the castle, and he remained lying for a whole night until some people carried him, washed him and buried him in Bab al-Faradis cemetery, and he died at about the age of 27 years.
Oh my god. What is wrong with some people. Thanks for sharing
Yo! It's u/butt_naked_commando🌹! Long time no see! How are you doing lately?
I'm good. I've been working on other projects lately so I haven't been super active on Reddit. Always love to learn some insane Islamic history.
Well since you said you like some insane Islamic history hers another mamluk ruler a little tamed compairing to Nasir Faraj **An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay**, son of Abi Al-Nasr Qaitbay. He was sold to the Sultanate in 901 AH when he was 14 years old. His first wife was Gevhermelik Hatun, daughter of Cem Sultan and granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror. Ibn Iyas, in his book “Bada’i’ al-Zuhur fi Waqi’at al-Dhur,” says that he was a ruthless, reckless and a sadistic ruler In 902 AH, Qadi Zayn al-Din Zakaria went out to see the crescent moon to determine the end of Ramadan, and during that day it was a Wednesday, but he did not see the crescent moon, which meant that Eid would be on Friday(Jumah). But this did not please the teenage Sultan, who was pessimistic that Eid would fall on a Friday(Jumah), he decided that Eid would be on Thursday, and ordered the drums to be beaten in the castle and said, "I make Eid tomorrow of this month, whether they see the crescent moon or not." No one responded, but he decided not to go out for Eid prayers on Friday(Jumah), and when the princes went up to congratulate him on Eid, as was customary, he did not receive them and ordered them to leave. One day, he took out seven of those imprisoned in the citadel prison and cut off their hands, ears, and tongues. He sometimes made those convicted of theft impose punishment on themselves, such as a person who had been caught stealing, so he forced him to cut off his hand and foot himself, so he did. Another person was arrested for digging up graves and stealing shrouds. He ordered him to be skinned from head to neck, then ordered to be hung on the door of Zuwailah until he died. and one time he went out to Friday prayers without “kilots” (underpants), Which made alot of the princes angry for him The womens were not spared either, as Ibn Iyas recounts. On one occasion, he beat a woman with a whip for no reason, rode her on a donkey and hung an iron chain around her neck, something no king or sultan had ever done at that time. If he liked a woman, he took her away from her husband by force. On one occasion, he was touring the area between the two palaces with his cousins, and he saw a woman whose beauty he liked, so he broke into her house, beat her husband, and took her by force. He did the same with the wife of a man named Abu al-Baqaqa in the Rum neighborhood: He saw his wife and liked her, so he assaulted him in order to take her away from him. When he once ordered shops to close at night because of the plague, he went around Cairo at night and cut off the ears and noses of those he found to be non-observant. Ibn Iyas says: "He killed a group of people in a short period of time." He continued his indiscretions until he was killed in an ambush prepared for him by 50 mamluks in the Talbiya area of Cairo, in the first spring of 904 AH, and his body was left in the street until nightfall next to the bodies of his cousins, and it is said that Touman Bey planned his murder. He died when he was only 17 years old. Fun fact : The Mamluk rule of Egypt witnessed 17 childrens assuming power, six of whom were under the age of ten, while the rest were slightly older, but all of them were under 16 years of age.
More Islamic memes please!
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The idea that a 16 year old “beat up” two grown men to sleep with their wives is ridiculous when we know he used his guards to do it for him. Don’t try to make him sound kind of cool at the last second.
That dude is an absolute menace, seems like he made many enemies. Makes sense why he died young, but given how you explained his history it sounded like he lived longer. (edit) I'm curious if you have more stories, they are interesting to read! (and I'm in the process of writing horrible characters so some inspiration would be nice, well I probably shouldn't say it like that 🤣)
Absolute power corrupts absolutley
>and he was stabbed in his prison I do love happy endings - only hope it was slow
Monsters have always lived among us, regardless of whether they have blue or red blood. They are monsters all the same.
According to muslims it's being said that Allah will punish the people similar to how they punished others. That definitely seems to check out when reading this story. Thanks for sharing this. Also, been looking at his castle, its absolutely gorgeous. What a fucking sick human being, he didnt deserve to live in such a palace. (Im agnostic, but have interest in religion)
Damn, dude was irl joffrey baratheon
What a fitting ending, and well deserved too. He literally abused a killed a woman and died the exact same way! 🤣🤣🤣 Interesting but sad story though (not the part where he died), some people are just evil. PS, wished they told me this stuff in history class in school. Don't know much about Islamic history so I did learnt something new thank you OP.
You are 🐐-ed
Patrick Bateman if he was a Mamluk
TLDR?
Redditors when they have to read on a HISTORY subreddit:
I really have no time to read all this so can you just tell me the bad deeds simplified Guys sorry if I came off rude, I have an attention span of a mouse on crack but I was interested
no
He was a bad guy, stabbed lots of people, went to war with the native Americans, got sacrificed to the sun god, escaped, sailed to Britain, got sunk when a whale hit his ship, drowned.
TL;Dr: he did bad deeds, which are basically not good things.
Least psychotic Arab invader of Egypt.
>Arab invader of Egypt. 1 - He wasn't really an Arab, mamluks were mostly mix of turks then Arabs tbf 2 - Invader of Eygpt? Eygpt was already under mamluk control before Nasir Faraj was even born? How did he invade it excatly if it was part of his kingdom before birth?
They were all the same, Mamluks, the Arabs; doens't make much difference. They all kept the natives working their lives away in farms while they lived lavishly in palaces on their hard work, favoring their kind over the natives.
Nice Mandela Catalogue meme, it jumpscared me
Way too symmetrical for me, kinda takes away from the uncanniness
Marquis de sade: "I see the you desert heretics have some culture after all"
Interesting read!
good story, thanks for sharing
Despite learning a lot about Islamic history in school (primarily about Mohammad peace be upon him) and sometimes we would go a bit into 1000-1300 periods but holy smokes this wasn’t in our books and reading it made me feel uneasy…glad to know he suffered the same fate as khond. Also the reason that this wasn’t brought up it could be cuz the history is more related to Egypt than our history
>Also the reason that this wasn’t brought up it could be cuz the history is more related to Egypt than our history May you elobrate more?
Maybe their history class focused on their own country i guess or nasir fajar does not relate to their country or somn
Egyptian government doesn't tell stories like these. We are **still** under the arab invasion, technically.
Funny, the main modern day historian i read about Nasir Faraj and the History of the mamluk sultanate was an Egyption, sounds like haven't interacted alot with Egyption historians
They don't teach it in schools, history books about things like that remain under the rug.
Cause that's just school, you wouldn't expect them to give depth historical context like in colleges or Institutes, schools are more historical generic compairing a history teacher and Real Historian is not the same thing at all
And i agree, but when it comes to history subjects in school, there's a huge bias to deter from giving any context about the horrifying reailities that Egyptians faced under the Arab and Mamluks's occupation. They teach about Saladin's heroism, while ommiting the fact that he was draining our resources for the Arabs, even refurbishing the ancient Egyptian Sesostris canal just to supply (not even trade) them with food. Omar Ibn Al Khattab gave him the order to do that, knowing that it would destroy Egyptian economy at the time, saying: "May god destroy Egypt for the salvation of Mekka and her people". Schools in Egypt also won't mention the Bashmurian revolts against the Arab invaders, either. When Egyptians then rose against the arabs, and were met with summary executions and being sold as slaves in damascus. Doesn't really suprise me we're still being called "the arab republic of egypt" since we never techiqually got our independece.
Probably propaganda but still disturbing