Historians have retroactively recast Muhammad Ali’s Turkish-armied Sudan conquest as purely Egyptian

Evidence

Muhammad Sabry, writing in 1930, resolved this ambiguity by effacing the “Turkish” nature of Muhammad `Alï’s armies in the Sudan and identifying them as completely Egyptian. Sabry considers the invasion to have been an essential part of the walï’s imperialistic ambitions; once the invasion was completed, he writes,“l’empire égyptien est, d’orès et déjà, constitué.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 180

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s broader African-coloniality framework: nationalist historiography erases the imperial lineage of conquerors, a pattern seen across postcolonial histories.
• QUESTION: Which other African colonial narratives have been nationalized or de-Turkified/de-Ottomanized in this way?