Egyptian nationalists argued only Islam could pacify the recalcitrant Sudanese.

Evidence

However, it is just as anachronistic to deny race consciousness in cultures confronting British or French or German imperialism in the late nineteenth century, when political, cultural, and sci- entific definitions of the word race were being coined. … The appellations and categories of race imposed by the empire were either accepted, denied, translated, or redirected, but they were always provocative. In late-nineteenth-century Egypt, writers and nationalists were acutely aware of the discourse on race being conducted in western Europe, and they used it to frame their various perspectives about the Sudan and its people. … There were many nuances to certain terms: abïd (slave), barbarï (Berber or barbarian), nübï (Nubian), arabï (Arab), and südänï, to name a few that bore particular significance in the hierarchy of political and economic relations from one end of the Nile Valley to the other. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese; Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98; The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt

Related

• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists rejected any racial identification with Africans being colonized (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists framed Sudan as family bound to Egyptian dictates, silencing Sudanese protest (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese nationalism drew on blacks long considered slaves (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan #corroborates (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98
• The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt #qualifies (0.45)