Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans

Evidence

Had it not been for the presence of Europeans, Egyptians could easily have fallen into the same abyss that Mubärak saw engulfing the Africans. But in adopting their ways, this text seems to assert, Egyptians could gain the same power as Europeans and, like them, colonize other lands. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 284 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. … For many of the British observers, the six slaves were victims, made vulnerable by their skin color.And the women knew themselves to have been purchased, and they considered themselves wrongly enslaved. If they were Muslims, then their religion removed them from the categories of the enslaveable, where polytheistic religious practices were nearly the equivalent of racial distinction. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

There were Egyptians, however, who responded to Ismaïl's dreams of expansion and wished to overcome their lack of representation in the scram- ble for Africa, hoping to assert themselves in the arena of empire building. … Ibrahïm Fawzï took these goals personally. He dedicated almost his entire military career to reinforcing the khedivial administration in the Sudan and, more important, the Egyptian character of that control. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 505</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.88)
• British colonialists and Egyptian nationalists agreed on the civilizing mission’s goal for slave women (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalist empire-building co-opted British instruments of hegemony yet still failed (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism fused anti-imperialism with the desire to re-subjugate the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian writers saw adopting European ways as a path to imperial power (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian writers saw adopting European ways as a path to imperial power #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 284
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #corroborates (0.82) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 505
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.65) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771
• The colonized colonizer duality gave Egyptian nationalists a Janus-like worldview #complicates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 60