Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan

Evidence

The idea emerged, powerfully, that the Sudanese benefited from crossing over into Egyptian culture, and that the civilizing hand of the Egyptian government would tame the awesome terri- tory of the Sudan itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 349 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Although he strongly protested the British occupation of Egypt, Fawzï believed fully in the idea of a hierarchy of civilizations in the world of the late nineteenth century, according to which schema the advanced cultures bore both the right and the responsibility to colonize and “civilize” societies considered less developed. In Fawzï’s perception, the acts of empire united a culture and made it a nation; the agents of his empire were therefore Egyptians, native-born and nationalist-minded. … Ibrahïm Fawzï was an enforcer of colonialism in the Sudan and a colonized subject at home in Cairo. His memoirs offer a unique glimpse into one patriot who could attempt to bridge the contradictions of early Egyptian nationalism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan (similarity 0.96)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.95)
• Egyptian nationalist empire-building co-opted British instruments of hegemony yet still failed (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalists could oppose British rule yet embrace civilizing-mission colonialism. (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.88)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists could be colonizers in Sudan while colonized at home (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan #exemplifies (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 349
• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. #corroborates (0.75)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #corroborates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316
• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #corroborates (0.55) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism #complicates (0.50)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan #expands (0.40)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other #complicates (0.40)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #qualifies (0.30) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #corroborates (0.30)