The Amalekites

According to al-Mas'udi, the Amaliq (Amalekites) were sons of Amlaq ibn Lawadh ibn Iram ibn Sam ibn Nuh. They settled the surroundings of the Sacred Precinct and the Tihama, and some of them travelled to Egypt and the Maghrib. He reports that some are said to have been among the Pharaohs of Egypt, and gives another view that they descend from al-Is ibn Ishaq. ¹

They had many kings in Syria and elsewhere, and their remnants joined the kings of the Romans. Among them was Udhayna ibn al-Sumayda', whom al-A'sha mentions. ¹

According to al-Baladhuri they first settled in Sana'a in Yemen, then moved to Yathrib, which was named after a chief of theirs called Yathrib. Then they moved to Palestine, and most of them went on to Egypt and Ifriqiya, and scattered in the Maghrib, where their Berber descendants are, in his account. ²

The two accounts differ, and the museum does not favour one over the other.