Egyptian nationalist empire-building co-opted British instruments of hegemony yet still failed

Evidence

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists could oppose British rule yet embrace civilizing-mission colonialism. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists could be colonizers in Sudan while colonized at home (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan #exemplifies (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #exemplifies (0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. #exemplifies (0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans #exemplifies (0.85)
• Egyptian colonial rhetoric replicated British civilizing-mission justifications #exemplifies (0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #exemplifies (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54
• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. #exemplifies (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 553
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. #exemplifies (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 753
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism #exemplifies (0.80)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #exemplifies (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 65
• Egypt’s informal British occupation contrasted with its formal 1821 colonial rule over the Sudan #exemplifies (0.75)
• Egyptian intellectuals studied British imperial success to emulate it. #exemplifies (0.75)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 #exemplifies (0.75)