Egyptian nationalism framed Sudan as Egypt’s soul through shared experience.

Evidence

The Sudan was a testing ground for Egyptian virility, for the individuals who had shed their blood there (fighting the Sudanese), and for the entire national project of independence at a time when the dominant worldview insisted that independent, self-reliant nations were by definition also regional, if not global, conquerors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Mapping the Sudanese colony strengthened the Egyptian national sense of self; Egyptian officers’ Sudan experiences anchored their national and cultural self-esteem (+6 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness (similarity 0.92)
• Kämil described the Sudan as the living spirit of the Egyptian nation (similarity 0.91)
• Sudan served as the foil that defined Egyptian national identity (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalist ideology rested on a unique claim to mastery over Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists framed Sudan as family bound to Egyptian dictates, silencing Sudanese protest (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as their own colony by right of conquest (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed the Sudan as rightful Egyptian territory needing reconquest. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #complicates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #complicates (0.50)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #complicates (0.50)