Shared language and religion did not erase the Egyptian-Sudanese status hierarchy

Evidence

There were strong connections between Ibrahïm Fawzï and the Sudanese: Arabic was the native tongue and Islam the religion of both. His Sudanese contemporaries in Omdurman were as aware as he was of the traditional hierarchy of status long played out in the relationship between Egyptians and Sudanese. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 618

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the reader’s interest in the different shades of coloniality: Egypt’s peculiar position as colonizer-yet-culturally-kindred to Sudan.