Al-Tahtawi portrayed Sudanese as racially inferior, beast-like, and blackened

Evidence

As he described it, half of its inhabitants were like beasts and others like stones.The men of the Sudan forced their women into pros- titution, and they accepted the progeny of these unions, despite the prohi- bition of Islamic law. They taught the women to fornicate like beasts. If it had not been for the white Arabs—law la al-bayda min al-arab la känu— they would have been blacker and blacker and blacker, nothing but black- ness—sawädan fï sawädin fï sawädin. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 242</cite> (#exemplifies`, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Al-Tahtawi depicted Sudanese as subhuman beasts and stones in his exile qasida. (similarity 0.92)
• Al-Tahtawi’s exile poem racialized Sudanese as blackness layered upon blackness. (similarity 0.91)
• Al-Tahtawï’s exile poetry racialized Sudanese as sub-human and blackness as degradation (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.85)
• Slave-descended Sudanese were deemed too lowly to speak for the nation (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese nationalism drew on blacks long considered slaves (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian defenses of slavery glossed over the Sudanese slave trade’s harshness (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians were surprised to learn Sudan saw them as arrogant (similarity 0.82)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians blamed the Sudanese ‘African world’ for slavery’s existence. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian acceptance of Nubians and Sudanese hinged on their remaining ignorant and subordinate. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Al-Tahtawi dehumanized Sudanese as racialized barbarians despite his civilizing claims #corroborates (0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism’s founder also codified racial disdain for the Sudanese #corroborates (0.80)
• Al-Tahtawi depicted Sudanese as subhuman beasts and stones in his exile qasida. #exemplifies (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 242
• Mubärak internalized the civilizing-mission ideology toward Sudan from al-Tahtawï #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 275
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. #expands (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 752