Narjis

Narjis (Arabic: نرجس‎) was reportedly the wife of Imâm Al-Ḥasan the `Askarî, the mother of the twelfth Imâm of Twelver Shi'a Islam.

Her name has been recorded as Rayḥâna, Narjis, Sayqal, Hadith or Suwsan in Shî`î books. There are a couple of narrations regarding her ancestry.

There are two traditions regarding her ancestry, one saying that she was African while the other saying she was Greek (Byzantine).

Some Shia sources have recorded her as being a "Roman (ie Byzantine) princess" who pretended to be a slave so that she might travel from her kingdom to Arabia. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, in Encyclopedia of Iranica, suggests that the last version is "undoubtedly legendary and hagiographic".

The animation of Princess of Rome is about life of Narjis and released in 33rd Fajr International Film Festival.

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