Al-Afghänï embraced the Mahdï yet rejected his Sudanese conquest of Egypt.

Evidence

To al- Afghänï he was not a real Mahdï, or messiah, nor could his call for government to promote his Islamic principles elsewhere (notably by means of a Sudanese conquest of Egypt) be accepted by al-Afghänï, who had so closely allied himself with the most important figures of Egyptian nationalism.Yet a powerful ambivalence about the Mahdï runs throughout the many articles published by al-Afghänï in his journal Al-`Urwa al-Wuthqa´ (The Indissoluble Link). — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 455

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison: Egyptian pan-Islamists instrumentalized the Mahdï while refusing his claim on Egypt itself.