Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination

Evidence

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religion and history make Egypt’s Sudan conquest non-imperial; Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan; Colonialism operated fluidly beyond the European model in the Egyptian-Sudanese case. (+17 more)

Related

• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.93)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.92)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.90)
• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.88)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt positioned itself alongside Europe by measuring Sudan as backward (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians under Muhammad Ali internalized empire as they mapped Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation (similarity 0.87)
• Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign (similarity 0.86)
• Milner argued Sudan was never genuinely subdued by or amalgamated with Egypt (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian imperialism defined Egypt as separate from and closer to Europe than the Sudan. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #expands (0.70)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #expands (0.65)
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian rule over Sudan constituted a mini-empire within the Ottoman framework #expands (0.60)