Islamic Arabic tradition about ancient Egypt tells about its last native dynasty up to the legendary conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar (the relevant plot was developed in pre-Islamic Coptic Egypt, merging the Egyptian campaign of Nebuchadnezzar in 568/567 BC and the campaign of Cambyses against Psammetichus III in 525 BC). Arab-Islamic texts provide a rather stable list of 9 successive representatives of this house, in most common or significant forms of names they are: Minakil, the father of the first king of the dynasty; his son Balutis, its first king, reigning after deposed criminal king Nemeris / Astumarus; his son Malus; his brother Minakil (the Younger); his son Baulah / N(a)ulah, who acted against the kings of Judea, Josiah and Jehoahaz (in reality it was Necho II); his son Marinus; his son Qarqurah; his brother Luqas / Niqas, under whom the temples and ritual protection of Egypt were destroyed, but the country prospered; his son Qumis, crushed by Nebuchadnezzar. It is shown that, despite the unrecognizable forms of names, this series consistently reproduces Manetho’s Dynasty XXVI of 9 kings; the last king, due to the said contamination of Cambyses’ and Nebuchadnezzar’s campaigns, carries reminiscences of both their opponents, Psammetichus III and Apries; Luqas, under whom the temples were destroyed, corresponds to Amasis, an upstart usurper, alien to the state-religious hierarchy, etc.; the criminal Nemeris reproduces Manetho’s “Ammeris the Ethiopian,” a foreign conqueror. Thus, Islamic stories about the last dynasty of independent Ancient Egypt quite directly continue the ancient Egyptian ones.
Alexander Nemirovsky (Wed,) studied this question.