Mapping the Sudan intensified Egyptian national self-definition

Evidence

For Jomard, himself an experienced traveler to Egypt and the Sudan, that was where the value of Selim Qapudan’s trip lay. … “To map hitherto ‘unknown’ regions (unknown, that is, to the European) using modern techniques in triangulation and geodesy was both a scientific activity dependent on trained personnel and state-of-the-art equipment and also a political act of appropriation which had obvious strate- gic utility to occupying military forces.” Muhammad Alï was keenly aware of this discourse and, in his turn, tried to channel this force of geo- graphical expertise by hiring noted European experts for Selim Qapudan's expedition, one of whom,Thibaut, had earlier scouted the Sudan for giraffes for the Zoological Society of London. And so, on a journey reminiscent of the French expedition to Egypt under Napoleon, Muhammad Alï sent a group of scientists and engineers into the Sudan accompanied by military might. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 209 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt relied on European geographers to map the conquered Sudan. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian mapping of Sudan was shaped through deliberate European mentorship (similarity 0.85)
• Nineteenth-century scientific mapping functioned as political appropriation serving occupying militaries (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalism framed Sudan as Egypt’s soul through shared experience. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian mapping of the Sudan depended on European explorers’ prior geographic knowledge and expertise. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness (similarity 0.83)
• Sudan served as the foil that defined Egyptian national identity (similarity 0.83)
• Kämil described the Sudan as the living spirit of the Egyptian nation (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility (similarity 0.83)
• Kamil gendering the Sudan as a maiden territory earned by Egyptian blood (similarity 0.82)
• Egypt’s 1820 conquest replaced merchant trade knowledge of Sudan with state fact-finding missions (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Scientific mapping in Sudan functioned as a political act of appropriation #exemplifies (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 209
• Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan #expands (0.65)
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness #expands (0.60)
• Kamil gendering the Sudan as a maiden territory earned by Egyptian blood #exemplifies (0.55)