Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan

Evidence

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. … For many of the British observers, the six slaves were victims, made vulnerable by their skin color.And the women knew themselves to have been purchased, and they considered themselves wrongly enslaved. If they were Muslims, then their religion removed them from the categories of the enslaveable, where polytheistic religious practices were nearly the equivalent of racial distinction. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.91)
• Egypt and Sudan formed a triangular colonial relationship that shaped Egyptian nationalism. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-British resistance with its own recolonizing ambitions in Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Mahdist Sudanese preferred distant British rule over near Egyptian rule (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.87)
• British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.86)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• British colonialists and Egyptian nationalists agreed on the civilizing mission’s goal for slave women (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted colonial stereotypes about Sudanese savagery to claim dominance (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalism was forged through a triangular rather than binary colonial relationship #corroborates (0.90)
• Egypt’s nationalism embodies a colonized-colonizer paradox the binary model misses #corroborates (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #responds-to (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54