The area of Qarafa belong mostly to the period Egypt was under the Burg Mamluk rulers. The first dynasty of Mamluk rulers was called Bahri Mamluk as they lived on Rhoda Island and "bahr" meaning sea, water or river. "Burg" on the other side is the word for fortress which here indicates that they ruled from and lived at Salah El Din's citadel.

The first ruler of the Burg Mamluks was Barquq, a Circassian slave who first ruled through the Bahr Mamluk infant Naggi who was six years when Barquq usurped the throne in 1382 and established his dynasty.

Barquq was son of a non-educated farmer from the area of Don River, but when he grew up in Cairo the sultan made him a powerful Emir. He had to fight Mongols and the Turks, and was able to keep the country free from both occupation forces. When he dies in 1399 it was his 13-year-old son Faraq ibn Barquq who officially took over the rule of Egypt.

Several Emirs' was fighting for the position to rule though young Faraq, but when the Mongols defeated the Turkish army in 1412, this defeat had it's efferct as far as Egypt.

In Damascus the Egyptian army lost the battle against the Mongolian army and Faraq was beheaded.

Let us mention in a sidenote that Faraq's "Master of the horses" who bore the name Emir Garkas El Khalili, was the one who in year 1400 established the Kahn (marketplace) of Khalili. Today the whole bazaar area here is known under his name: Khan El Khalili.

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