Egyptian writers saw adopting European ways as a path to imperial power

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

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Captures a ‘defensive modernization as imperial accession’ logic comparable to Thailand and Japan’s strategies of adopting Western forms to avoid colonization.
• SEED: Angle: ‘learning empire’ — how a newly colonized elite re-exported colonial civilizing logic one tier down, on Sudan.

Related

• Egyptian colonial writers could adapt European empire logic against colonization of Egypt itself (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian imperialism defined Egypt as separate from and closer to Europe than the Sudan. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian intellectuals studied British imperial success to emulate it. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptians realized Europe ranked them closer to Africa than to Europe in civilizational terms (similarity 0.85)
• Al-Tahtawï viewed European colonialism as a model for Egypt to emulate in Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptians internalized a civilizing mission toward Africa to assert parity with Europe. (similarity 0.85)
• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. (similarity 0.84)
• An Egyptian intellectual saw Egypt’s own colonization as insurance against sharing Africa’s fate. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian independence hinged on proving moral compatibility with western Europe (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian independence hinged on proving civilization to western Europe (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism fused anti-imperialism with the desire to re-subjugate the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt practiced imperialism in a temporal limbo between Ottoman and European models. (similarity 0.82)
• Mubarak saw Egyptian colonialism in Sudan as necessary self-strengthening (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists were themselves colonizers of Sudan while being colonized by Europe (similarity 0.82)