Al-Afghani sought an Arab empire but still claimed Sudan for Egypt.

Evidence

Sharawï repeated all the Wafd's ideas about the Sudan, saying, "We must hold on to our rights with respect to the issue of the Sudan, considering the Sudan an inseparable part of Egypt, and not a colony." … In one such letter, sent to the press on 24 March 1924 she berates Zaghlül,"who knows as every one else knows that Egypt cannot tolerate her soldiers being forced out of the Sudan." — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike.; Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan; Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (+1 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed the Sudan as rightful Egyptian territory needing reconquest. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists saw Sudanese expansionism as threatening as British rule (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Kamil asserted Egyptian legal title to the Sudan over British claims (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists justified the Sudan claim through pharaonic Arab and Muhammad Ali precedent (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. #corroborates (0.70)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony #corroborates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856
• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan #corroborates (0.50)