In recent decades, historians of the Arab conquest have increasingly turned away from positivist reconstructions of the events of the Arab conquest. Through thematic analysis of conquest narratives, scholars have illustrated how the early Islamic community articulated its identity. Byzantine narratives of the Arab conquest have generally not been considered from this perspective. This paper takes the long view of the Arab conquest illustrating how centuries of Byzantine writers and chroniclers articulated and rearticulated this memory, as their identity shifted along with their political and diplomatic relationships.

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拜占庭历史记忆中的阿拉伯征服：长远眼光

近几十年来，阿拉伯征服的历史学家越来越远离对阿拉伯征服事件的实证重建。通过对征服叙事的主题分析，学者们阐明了早期伊斯兰社区是如何表达其身份的。拜占庭关于阿拉伯征服的叙述通常没有从这个角度考虑。本文对阿拉伯征服进行了长期观察，说明了几个世纪以来的拜占庭作家和编年史家是如何在他们的身份随着他们的政治和外交关系而改变时，如何清晰地表达和重新表达这种记忆的。