Lutfi al-Sayyid redefined imperialism so only foreigners could colonize

Evidence

Hamza wrote in a unique style about the importance of geographical names in public conceptions of the political map, but the rest of the imagery he used to illustrate the Sudan’s links with Egypt had become clichéd by the time of his writing.The Sudan as Egypt’s soul was a standard formula in the nationalist lexicon, until Lutfï al-Sayyid deepened the discussion with his ideas about shared culture creating family ties. The Egyptians had experienced everything the Sudanese had experienced, and this past bound their culture. By linking the two peoples culturally, Lutfï al-Sayyid again changed the definition of the word imperialism for Egyptian society, because only foreigners could colonize. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 769

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the Egyptian nationalist movement’s semantic maneuver redefined ‘imperialism’ to exclude Egyptian rule over Sudan.
• XREF: This redefinition of ‘colonization’ to mean only foreign-rule connects to broader literature on how colonized nationalisms borrowed and reframed imperial vocabulary - parallels the reader’s coloniality framework.