text: " The same prince testified his esteem for the fine arts by riding forth in state from his capital to welcome the arrival of Zaryab a far-famed musician whom the jealousy of a rival had driven from Bagdad and who founded in Spain a famous school of music; and in his convivial habits and the freedom which he allowed to the companions of his festive hours his character accords with that assigned in the _Thousand and One Nights_ though not in the page of history to Haroon-Al-Rasheed