ABSTRACT Imperial and aristocratic Byzantine women had a wide variety of roles with a spectrum of importance. One possible way to enrich our information about Byzantine royal women is to consult the historical and cultural heritage of Byzantium’s adjacent territories. The primary aim of this article is thus to trace Byzantine women in the Arabic Shīʿī literature, as exemplified by the underutilised autobiography of a hitherto unidentified Roman princess named Malīka. Probably because Malīka’s autobiography, along with its hagiographic and miraculous elements, is found in a source from the Shīʿī Ḥadīth tradition, the account’s potential historical value has escaped the notice of previous Byzantinists. Despite its hagiographic character, Malīka’s story has a historical core. Through an intertextual study between the Arabic and Byzantine historical texts, the present study seeks to shed light on the identification of Malīka and her paternal ancestry.

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一个被忽视的拜占庭王室妇女的阿拉伯语叙述

摘要 帝国和贵族拜占庭女性扮演着各种各样的角色，其重要性各不相同。丰富我们关于拜占庭王室女性的信息的一种可能方法是查阅拜占庭邻近领土的历史和文化遗产。因此，本文的主要目的是追溯阿拉伯什叶派文学中的拜占庭女性，例如一位至今身份不明的罗马公主马利卡的未充分利用的自传。可能是因为马利卡的自传，连同其圣徒传记和奇迹般的元素，都来自于 Shīʿī Ḥadīth 传统的来源，因此该记载的潜在历史价值没有引起先前拜占庭主义者的注意。尽管具有圣徒式的特点，Malīka 的故事有一个历史核心。