The Arabic term barbarï referred to Nubians, not Berbers

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• Egyptian writers erased the Nubian-Sudanese distinction under one stereotype (similarity 0.86)
• The word Berber originally denoted a barbarian character in Arabic and English (similarity 0.82)
• Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese (similarity 0.81)
• Slave origins determined which language hierarchies they occupied in Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian writers distinguished humane English colonization from genocidal imperial conquests. (similarity 0.81)
• Some Sudanese tribes and traders profited from the Turkïya despite denouncing it (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian actors performing Nubian roles appropriated Sudanese sentiment without subverting rank (similarity 0.81)
• Britain effaced Egypt’s role in the Sudan by reattributing its history. (similarity 0.81)
• Nubian traders faced discrimination in Egyptian guilds in the late 1870s. (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian nationalism paired aggression toward Sudan with defensiveness toward Britain. (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian expansion into Africa collided with British abolitionism in the Nile Valley. (similarity 0.80)