Fawzï’s legitimacy as an officer rested on his colonial service in Sudan

Evidence

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Soldiers’ Sudan experiences circulated privately until Fawzi published his memoirs (similarity 0.93)
• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian officers’ ranks depended on British recognition rather than Egyptian authority. (similarity 0.83)
• European officers orchestrated the removal of Egyptian officials in Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.83)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.82)
• An Egyptian officer’s entire rank depended on a British general’s patronage (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian officers in Omdurman were socially demoted below Sudanese former slaves (similarity 0.82)
• European rivals branded Egyptian governor Fawzï a slave-dealing despot (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial collaborators simultaneously resented and depended on their colonial masters. (similarity 0.80)
• The Mahdist regime inverted master-slave hierarchies, degrading Egyptian officers to slave status (similarity 0.80)
• Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese military elites remained suspect to the British due to slave-trade reputations #complicates (0.45) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1141