Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike.

Evidence

Shaykh al-Tahtawï inherited his view of the Sudan and its people, who not only were burdened with the ages-old stereotype of them as wild and savage but also were the subjects of many explorations and studies and were conceptualized as a subject people. He was the most politicized of the four voyagers of this study, because of his particularly energetic participation in Muhammad Alï's program of social reform for Egypt, and because of the perspectives about national community and identity that he gained from his experiences in France, which he promoted eloquently and forcefully in Egypt. From Paris, al-Tahtawï brought home a new lexicon to describe his own country, the most powerful being al-watan, his complicated word for the nation and its community and the bond that had to be forged between the two. His deep and abiding love for Egypt was rivaled only by his profound disgust with the Sudan and the Sudanese. His long poem about the Sudan imparts a kind of knowledge different from that shared by the other three voyagers. His master work, Manähij al-albäb al-misriya fï mabähij al-adäb al-asriya, offers a more politicized sense of Egypt's cultural geography. His particular poem about the Sudan and its people also demonstrates how the process of colonialism and nationalism came to be racialized, and how an increasing sense of racial difference could be incorporated into a sense of political and cultural boundaries. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Sharawï repeated all the Wafd's ideas about the Sudan, saying, "We must hold on to our rights with respect to the issue of the Sudan, considering the Sudan an inseparable part of Egypt, and not a colony." … In one such letter, sent to the press on 24 March 1924 she berates Zaghlül,"who knows as every one else knows that Egypt cannot tolerate her soldiers being forced out of the Sudan." — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing.; Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony; Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (+14 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted corporeal metaphors for the loss of the Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalism and colonialism became linked through racial difference (similarity 0.91)
• Sudanese nationalism drew on blacks long considered slaves (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian acceptance of Nubians and Sudanese hinged on their remaining ignorant and subordinate. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptians were surprised to learn Sudan saw them as arrogant (similarity 0.90)
• The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan #expands (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856
• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.60)
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726