Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule

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. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#expands, via linked claim)

The Sudan was a testing ground for Egyptian virility, for the individuals who had shed their blood there (fighting the Sudanese), and for the entire national project of independence at a time when the dominant worldview insisted that independent, self-reliant nations were by definition also regional, if not global, conquerors. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa; Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan; Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (+1 more)

Related

• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Milner argued Sudan was never genuinely subdued by or amalgamated with Egypt (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid reframed Egyptian-Sudanese unity on secular history rather than Islam (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• A nationalist reframed Sudanese as equals by appealing to shared history rather than Islam (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• An Egyptian nationalist argued Sudanese deserved equality with Egyptians (similarity 0.86)
• The castrated Sudanese eunuch symbolized Egypt’s own subjection to Ottoman rule (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.85)
• Lutfi al-Sayyid held colonizing the Sudan as Egypt’s exclusive right (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726