Note 198 — Chapter XII · The Caliphates of El-Mansūr, El-Hādi, and Hārūn er-Rashīd

We have not thought fit to dwell at any length on the adventures of this famous impostor. Professor Vambéry, in his History of Bokhara, devotes no less than ten pages to the rising. The story, in its main outlines, is familiar to Englishmen from Moore’s Lalla Rookh.