Mubarak saw African colonialism as Egypt’s route to surviving the new world order

Evidence

Wadad al-Qadi convincingly argues that this narrative fits into a genre of “the Arab rediscovery of Europe—books quite in fashion in the second half of the nineteenth century,” as the success of al-Tahtawï’s Takhlïs al-ibriz in 1834 had shown. But Mubärak, unlike al-Tahtawï, did not just inform his Egyptian readers about affairs and customs in the West. Instead, Alam al- Dïn "put the East in a direct situation of actual confrontation with the West, so that the East, before the West, knows its proper place in world civiliza- tion." This is why Africa was so important, for it too was in confrontation with the West and the East. Only through the strengthening process of con- fronting Africa through scientific exploration, reform of education, and colonialism could Egyptians possibly maintain themselves in what had become a new world order. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 271</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Mubarak saw Egyptian colonialism in Sudan as necessary self-strengthening (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptians internalized a civilizing mission toward Africa to assert parity with Europe. (similarity 0.89)
• An Egyptian intellectual saw Egypt’s own colonization as insurance against sharing Africa’s fate. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians blamed the Sudanese ‘African world’ for slavery’s existence. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian defenses of slavery glossed over the Sudanese slave trade’s harshness (similarity 0.83)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists saw Sudanese expansionism as threatening as British rule (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians grew uneasy that Europeans ranked Egypt as African and colonizable. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalism framed Sudan as Egypt’s natural colonial site, not a threat (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians realized Europe ranked them closer to Africa than to Europe in civilizational terms (similarity 0.82)
• Al-Tahtawï viewed European colonialism as a model for Egypt to emulate in Sudan (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian imperialism defined Egypt as separate from and closer to Europe than the Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian writers saw adopting European ways as a path to imperial power (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt’s colonizing discourse toward Sudan was a projection of European civilizing ideology. (similarity 0.81)
• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Mubärak urged Egyptians to confront Africa through exploration and colonialism to hold their place #expands (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 271