Taraj al-Saum was a Malik of Gharu'n.[1]
Taraj reigned in a time when Gharu'n had known peace for many years, when smiths were forging more plowshares than swords, and no threats loomed on the horizons. During this time, some older men were described as veterans who had been fine swordsmen in their youth and had grown restless for days of action.[1]
Based on this information, it seems likely that Taraj was the Malik of Gharu'n after the Century of Storms, and prior to the second invasion by Viamont. The veterans would that have been from the force that Jawhar al-Shamshir gathered to remove Viamont's puppet ruler Zahir ibn Ma'mun out of power.[2] After driving the Viamontian influence out of Gharu'n, Jawhar went on to become Malik, and was said to have restored the kingdom to the glory it had known in Yasif ibn Salayyar's time.[2] The peace known during Taraj's reign could have started with Jawhar.
Culturally, during Taraj's reign, the sight of a women wearing armor and bearing swords was still considered strange.[1] Men could have more than one wife, and women could have more than one husband, which is still the case in the present day.[1] Within these polygamous marriages, there was the concept of a First Wife (and presumably, First Husband).[1] It was not seen as proper for the daughter of a Mu'allim to be anything but a man's First Wife.[1]
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