British revenge rhetoric for Gordon barred Egyptians from the Sudan’s reconquest

Evidence

Only an officer of high rank would have been near Gordon in his final moments, Fawzï’s text implies, only someone indispensable to the Egyptian administration of the Sudan. As Fawzï knew, and as other Egyptians witnessed, when the news of Gordon’s death finally reached England, the British public arose in anger and demanded vengeance against the Mahdï. Though momentum for reconquest moved slowly through the Foreign Office, Kitchener’s mobilization was characterized as revenge for Gordon. This emotional jihad against the Sudanese completely precluded any Egyptian role in the fall of Khartoum, however. The reconquest of the Sudan was not organized by Egyptian leaders but by British officials. Egyptian officers did not lead Egyptian troops back into the Sudan fourteen 122 / The Lived Experience of Contradiction years after their predecessors had been evacuated from it; on the contrary, British officers led the Egyptian soldiers up the Nile toward Omdurman. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 578

Categorization

• QUESTION: Note the striking phrase ‘emotional jihad against the Sudanese’ attributed to the British public — is this Fawzï’s wording or the author’s? Worth chasing the original Arabic usage.