Egyptian nationalists justified the Sudan claim through pharaonic Arab and Muhammad Ali precedent

Evidence

There is no doubt that the Egyptian Sudan is part of our beloved Egypt like the soul to the body; from it comes the blessed Nile, the life of the country and the source of Egypt’s resources and welfare. Everyone who rules the Sudan realizes these truths. From ancient times, their care had been to keep the Sudan together with Egypt. The pharaohs conquered the Sudan, then the Arabs, then Muhammad `Alï Pasha, who had it explored and excavated by teams of specialists, searching for its hidden minerals, which companies there now refine. All this is to say that the remains of Egypt’s imperialism in the Sudan show she has long been a part of the country, whose benefits come thanks to such endeavors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 761

There is no doubt that the Egyptian Sudan is part of our beloved Egypt like the soul to the body; from it comes the blessed Nile, the life of the country and the source of Egypt’s resources and welfare. Everyone who rules the Sudan realizes these truths. From ancient times, their care had been to keep the Sudan together with Egypt. The pharaohs conquered the Sudan, then the Arabs, then Muhammad `Alï Pasha, who had it explored and excavated by teams of specialists, searching for its hidden minerals, which companies there now refine. All this is to say that the remains of Egypt’s imperialism in the Sudan show she has long been a part of the country, whose benefits come thanks to such endeavors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 761

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how the Egyptian nationalist lexicon defined ‘imperialism’ as a legitimate pre-colonial inheritance rather than a foreign imposition.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated purpose of comparing colonial ambitions/tools in Egypt vs Sudan - this is the Egyptian colonial projection onto Sudan.
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports an essay angle on ‘grafting’: here Egyptian imperial rhetoric grafts itself onto pharaonic continuity to naturalize Sudan’s subordination — Nile-valley unity framed as organic body/soul.
• DEEPTHINKING: A colonized people recycling the colonizer’s civilizing-imperial ideology against a ‘lesser’ neighbor — the recursive layering of coloniality within a single Nile valley.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 761