Mamluk Syria - 1399-1412 - Silver Dirham (Cut from silver bar) - Faraj (born 1389, Cairo—died 1412, Damascus) was the 26th Mamlūk ruler of Egypt and Syria; his reign was marked by a loss of internal control of the Mamlūk kingdom, whose rulers were descendants of slaves. Faraj was the victim of forces—including foreign invasion and domestic feuds—that he did not create and could not control.