Egypt’s Sudan conquest cannot be labeled imperialism, argues Ramadan.

Evidence

The expedition was an act of empire, mimicking acts of other empires— but in the name of which empire? Here lies the mystery. Although the expedition brought great glory to Egypt and to its ruler, it remains unclear how many native-born, Arabic-speaking Egyptians took part in the expedi- tion. Its leader himself was a Turkish-speaking officer, and his journal was not translated into Arabic until 1922. Some Egyptian historians, like Maq- qar, have claimed Selim Qapudan as an Egyptian pioneer or an Egyptianized hero. But this leads back to the opacity that continues to surround Muhammad Alï's African empire. Selim Qapudan endured the hardships of his voyages out of duty to Muhammad Alï, but which community was he claiming as his own? In the name of which nation, if any, was he exploring? — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 210 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity (similarity 0.91)
• Muhammad Ali’s Sudanese expedition was an empire whose agents were not Egyptians (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian rule over Sudan constituted a mini-empire within the Ottoman framework (similarity 0.88)
• Muhammad Ali’s Sudan expeditions were acts of empire with an ambiguous imperial identity (similarity 0.87)
• Some historians deny Egypt’s Sudan conquest counts as imperialism. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian claims on Selim Qapudan as a national hero are anachronistic (similarity 0.85)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.83)
• Milner argued Sudan was never genuinely subdued by or amalgamated with Egypt (similarity 0.83)
• Scholars exclude the Sudan from Egypt’s imperial expansion on unstated grounds (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan #complicates (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #complicates (0.80)
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 210