Individual Sudanese lives crossed both sides of the Mahdist and Egyptian upheavals.

Evidence

Then there were men like Babikr Bedri, a devoted follower of the Mahdï who found himself imprisoned in Egypt after the disastrous effort of the Mahdists to conquer Egyptian territory. On his eventual return to the Sudan he became the founder of the country’s first school for girls. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 499

Categorization

• QUESTION: Babikr Bedri’s memoir is a classic Sudanese source well worth adding to the reading list for first-person perspective on the Mahdïya.
• XREF: connects to: Sudanese Mahdists framed their revolt against Egyptians as religious and economic resistance; Sudanese Mahdist victories inspired Egyptian pan-Islamic writers who resented the same Turkish-Egyptian rulers — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 454; Egyptian captives shared religion and language with Sudanese yet suffered status inversion keenly — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 618 (+13 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sudanese Mahdists framed their revolt against Egyptians as religious and economic resistance; Sudanese Mahdist victories inspired Egyptian pan-Islamic writers who resented the same Turkish-Egyptian rulers — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 454; Egyptian captives shared religion and language with Sudanese yet suffered status inversion keenly — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 618 (+13 more)