Sanu’a charged Khedive Tawfiq’s throne itself contradicted Islamic law

Evidence

I throw this rock at you, O enemy to the faith, first of all because of what you did to the poor fallah, and the Egyptian soldier, and the alïm, learned in the Qur´an, and second because you handed over the treasures of your country to the greed of the British, then you made their priests rulers of Islam. Third, for your sitting on the khedivial throne, which is itself a contradiction of the Islamic sharia. You did not rightly inherit the throne. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 473

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how exiled writers used religious legitimacy arguments to delegitimize colonial-backed rulers — the throne as shari`a violation rather than mere political failure.