Shared language and religion did not protect Egyptians from degradation in Mahdist Sudan

Evidence

The Mahdïya in the Sudan created new heroes for the pan-Islamic move- ment. By 1883, the forces of the Mahdï were imposing defeat after defeat on Egyptian troops, with some startling victories over regiments commanded by British officers. The Mahdïya’s forces decried the rule of the “Turks,” their word for the Circassian-led Egyptian army, for their religious laxness, for their economic exploitation of the Sudan, and for the disruption of the slave trade in the late 1870s. Although they cursed Egyptians, the Mahdï and his forces began to attract a great deal of favorable attention within Egypt itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 454 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Cf. Fawzï Pasha, Kitäb al-südän bayna aydï Gordon wa Kitchener, 2:61, 142, 260. 53. Ibid., 1:95. 54. Bedri, The Memoirs of Babikr Bedri, p. 24, n. 1.The note explains that in the Mahdist Sudan the term Turk had no “precise ethnic significance” and was later transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian elite. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1144 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Sudanese Mahdist victories inspired Egyptian pan-Islamic writers who resented the same Turkish-Egyptian rulers (similarity 0.85)
• Mahdist Sudanese preferred distant British rule over near Egyptian rule (similarity 0.84)
• The Mahdist revolt against Egypt won admiration among Egyptians themselves. (similarity 0.84)
• Sudanese perceived Egyptian soldiers as ‘Turks,’ destabilizing Egypt’s civilizing ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Arabic-speaking Egyptians were considered Turks in the Sudan context (similarity 0.84)
• The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (similarity 0.84)
• Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt’s colonial rule over Sudan was known to Sudanese as the Turkïya (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian captives in Omdurman shared language and faith with Sudanese while preserving rank distinctions (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian anti-Sudanese stereotypes were replaced by silencing Sudanese self-assertion (similarity 0.82)
• Sudanese traders and northern tribes profited heavily under Egyptian rule. (similarity 0.82)
• The Sudan’s ethnic divisions outweighed its religious and linguistic ties to Egypt (similarity 0.82)
• The term Turk lost precise ethnic meaning and later labeled Anglo-Egyptian rulers (similarity 0.82)
• The Mahdi’s rebellion mobilized Sudanese against Egyptian taxation and slave-trade abolition (similarity 0.81)
• Sanu’a argued Egyptians fighting in Sudan fought against Muslim brothers. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese Mahdist forces denounced Egyptian rule for religious and economic exploitation. #qualifies (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 454
• In Mahdist Sudan the label Turk carried no precise ethnic meaning #expands (0.40) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1144