Scholars exclude the Sudan from Egypt’s imperial expansion on unstated grounds

Evidence

But Lawson’s descriptions of these campaigns inexplicably exclude the Sudan. What follows his interesting analysis of the first Egyptian campaign into the Hijaz is an exploration of the expeditions into the Aegean, with hardly any mention of the invasion of the Sudan that occurred between the two. Lawson offers no reasons for the exclusion and so excludes the African campaign from the rubric “imperialist expansion.” Is such an omission historically defensible? How can one then characterize this conquest (which lasted much longer than any of Muhammad `Alï’s other campaigns)? — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 183

Categorization

• QUESTION: The unanswered challenge — Sudan’s conquest outlasted every other Egyptian campaign, yet gets dropped from ‘imperialist expansion’ rubrics — points at a historiographic bias worth pursuing.