Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive

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• Egyptian officers were denied all military command and intelligence (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian army discipline shifted from brutal force to abstract internalized controls (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian writers erased the Nubian-Sudanese distinction under one stereotype (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian soldiers joined the Mahdï after the `Uräbï rebellion’s defeat (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali saluted crowds, unlike his predecessors who demanded prostration (similarity 0.81)
• An Egyptian cavalry brigade fled the battle of Konia and awaited the victor (similarity 0.81)
• Army performance depended on officer-men relations more than on Ibrahim’s leadership (similarity 0.81)
• Kamil framed Egypt as rightful Islamic ruler over a fanatical Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Mehmed Ali used the Wahhabi war to dispose of his troublesome Albanian troops (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized fake Sudanese voices instead of seeking real Sudanese allies (similarity 0.81)
• Top Egyptian officials debated army structure, officer ratios, and ethnic composition in consultation. (similarity 0.81)
• Muhammad Ali deployed diverse officers to classify the Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalism’s founder also codified racial disdain for the Sudanese (similarity 0.80)