Mubarak internalized the civilizing mission for Sudan

Evidence

As Montesquieu’s creation, the Persians’ views on European civilization in general and French culture in particular were reflections from “a civilized European’s critical intellect.” In Alam al-Dïn, James the storyteller and his listeners all represent the views of an educated Egyptian intellect and as such offer valuable insights into how deeply Alï Mubärak had internalized the idea of a civilizing mission in the Sudan discussed earlier by al-Tahtawï. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the earlier al-Tahtawi discussion of a civilizing mission in Sudan that the reader has been following across chapters.
• SEED: Essay on how Egyptian modernizers adopted European civilizing-mission ideology wholesale and redirected it southward at Sudan.