The libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe.

He was so guilt-ridden that he could not face his father.

He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.

The fortuitous circumstances that the first man to be elected to this high office was a Qurayshite became, for all except the heterodox, a principle — the caliph had to be a member of the Prophet's tribe, and the Prophet was a Qurayshite.