British colonialists and Egyptian nationalists agreed on the civilizing mission’s goal for slave women

Evidence

Another well-publicized work that compared Egypt to England was Muham- mad Umar’s Hädir al-misrïyïn aw sirr ta´akhurihim (The Present State of the Egyptians, or the Cause of Their Retrogression), published in 1902. The secret, as Muhammad Umar saw it, was colonialism. With this word very much in mind, Salah Hamdï Hamad published another study of British ascendancy in 1906, with the simple title Nahnu wa al-Rüqï (Our Progress). This too presented a mirror of England in an effort to teach Egyptians the art of national self-determination, but it went further toward explaining how to recreate the Egyptian empire. It was important for Egyptians to understand that true imperialism [istimär] benefited everyone.Through one community’s settlement in another’s land, for the purpose of making a liv- ing, the exchange of expertise about trade, crafts, and agricultural develop- ment was spread to the host country. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 758</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. … For many of the British observers, the six slaves were victims, made vulnerable by their skin color.And the women knew themselves to have been purchased, and they considered themselves wrongly enslaved. If they were Muslims, then their religion removed them from the categories of the enslaveable, where polytheistic religious practices were nearly the equivalent of racial distinction. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-British resistance with its own recolonizing ambitions in Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists framed slavery as a domestic civilizing mission toward Sudan. (similarity 0.86)
• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.84)
• Britain justified girls’ schooling in Egypt as civilizing progress (similarity 0.84)
• British and Egyptian elites agreed Sudanese slave women should be civilized. (similarity 0.84)
• British and Egyptian elites agreed that domesticating slave women served the civilizing mission. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Slavery’s legacy underpinned Egyptian nationalist discourse about the Sudan (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. #expands (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 758
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54