Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese.

Evidence

Kämil originated this particular dualism in the definitions of fanatical [mutasib] 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 represen- tation of the Sudanese, however, distorted their image with the same force that British invectives against savagery visited on the image of Egyptians. The identification with both colonizer and colonized within the Egyptian nationalist movement presents itself vividly here.The speeches and writings of Kämil and his imitators shows an effort to twist through the narrow parameters by which civilization was gauged in the 1890s. But by using the measurements and instruments of the master, Kämil in important ways offered his submission to British hegemony. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 753</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Sanüa thus provides a reliable example of a duality around which Egyptian nationalism was beginning to take shape. This dichotomous approach to empire was articulated in racial terms. Although Sanüa was fiercely critical of Great Britain’s imperialism in India and feared the same fate for Egypt, his work reveals an intimate empire, in which the Sudanese were the servants, guards, and doorkeepers of Egyptian society. Although the Sudan itself was depicted as a wild and untamed land, Sudanese residents in Egypt were often portrayed as docile, fearful, and in need of Egyptian guidance. As the following two excerpts show, Sanüa saw more than just a geographic border between the Sudan and Egypt: he saw a bridge of dependency as well. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Ibrahïm Fawzï may have been the most honest in his acceptance of the contradiction inherent in the colonized colonizer, but nothing offended him as deeply as being identified as the slave of a Sudanese. Ahmad Lutfï al-Sayyid was the most candid in his dis- cussion of racial prejudice in Egypt, but for him as well, the Sudan and the Sudanese had no past independent of Egypt. Even the beautiful voice of Muhammad Imäm al-Abd could not be heard without the interfering fact of his parents’ enslavement. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalist politics challenged British rule but not internal social hierarchies (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted colonial stereotypes about Sudanese savagery to claim dominance (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial tropes to describe the Sudanese (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.89)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.89)
• The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. #corroborates (0.95) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 753
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #corroborates (0.95) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #corroborates (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54
• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #corroborates (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #corroborates (0.90)
• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 65
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism #corroborates (0.75)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists treated slavery as Egypt’s internal matter with Sudan #expands (0.60)