Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial tropes to describe the Sudanese

Evidence

Kämil originated this particular dualism in the definitions of fanatical [mut`asib] and barbarian [mutawahish] and asserted it as a basis for Egyptian domination. As he described them, the Sudanese were fanatic and savage, particularly in terms of religion. Only Egyptian Muslims knew how to translate this wild energy into a viable society. “We know them,” Kämil seemed to be saying of the Sudanese, “but we are not them.” His representation of the Sudanese, however, distorted their image with the same force that British invectives against savagery visited on the image of Egyptians. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader framework of layered coloniality in Africa - colonized Egyptians re-deploying metropole’s racial categories downward.
• SEED: Angle: ‘The colonized who colonize’ - how subaltern groups adopt the oppressor’s racial grammar to claim superiority over a third group.