Muhammad Ali deliberately diversified who classified the Sudan’s geography.

Evidence

Clearly, then, the viceroy himself relied deeply on Europeans to help him define the geography of the Sudan and, consequently, what should and could be done with the region and its diverse peoples. But his employing a dependable Turkish-speaking naval officer known as Selim Qapudan to journey up the Nile to find its source also suggests that Muhammad `Alï hoped to diversify the group of people who were to categorize and classify the Sudan in his name. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 192

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to literature on colonial knowledge production and how rulers diversify the agents of cartographic and classificatory control.