Sudanese and Egyptian discontents erupted simultaneously against shared Ottoman authority

Evidence

During the same months of 1880 and early 1881 in which Colonel `Uräbï was gathering support for his protest of military conditions, a young religious leader named Muhammad Ahmad rallied the Sudanese with his call to evict what he called the “Turkish” administration from the Sudan. Muhammad Ahmad soon became known more popularly as the Mahdï, the “rightly guided one,” and he attracted thousands with his promises to relieve Sudanese Muslims from overtaxation by the Egyptian administration and to end the government’s attempts at abolition of the slave trade. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 301

Categorization

• QUESTION: The simultaneity of the Urabi revolt and Mahdist call is striking — both frame their enemy as ‘Turkish.’ Worth exploring if the reader sees this as a single anti-Ottoman moment spanning Egypt and Sudan.
• XREF: The Mahdi’s framing of the administration as ‘Turkish’ (not Egyptian or European) is key for the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison.