À ce sujet, l'historien jordanien Suleiman Mousa, dans son ouvrage intitulé Sharif Husayn and the Developments Leading to the Arab Revolt, paru dans la collection New Arabian Studies I, publiée aux presses de l'université d'Exeter, écrivait, aux pages 39 et 40 :
About this, the Jordanian historian Suleiman Mousa in his work Sharif Husayn and Developments Leading to the Arab Revolt included in New Arabian Studies I published by the University of Exeter Press, wrote at pages 39-40: