Egypt’s colonizing discourse toward Sudan was a projection of European civilizing ideology.

Evidence

In Alam al-Dïn, James the storyteller and his listeners all represent the views of an educated Egyptian intellect and as such offer valuable insights into how deeply Alï Mubärak had internalized the idea of a civilizing mission in the Sudan discussed earlier by al-Tahtawï. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison: Egypt adopted Europe’s civilizing-mission vocabulary and redirected it inward at its own southern colony.