Having a PhD degree is not a guarantee for good academic work. Dr. Mahmoud Omar [Maḥmūd ʿUmar] may have been a good archeologist, but he ruined his own academic reputation by interpreting medieval traditions as historical facts, as descriptions that have actually happened. “What we today understand as ‘facts’ did not exist centuries ago,” Medievalist Dr. Willem Kuiper writes in his commentary. The Holy Family tradition developed gradually over time, each time new elements were added. These had a purpose as I described in my description of the tradition of St. Dimyana [Dimyāna] but that does not make these traditions historical facts. Yet, this is precisely what Dr. Maḥmūd ʿUmar did. It was convenient, just before the festivities for the new millennium. He was praised by local Coptic Orthodox clergy who saw in this Muslim scholar a man who confirmed their beliefs. But that did not make it true.