The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt
Evidence
Universally considered to have sown the first seeds of an Egyptian sense of nationalism, al-Tahtawï also set down on paper important tropes about the Sudan, a place he despised yet considered intrinsic to the territo- rial and historical integrity of Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 114
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s comparative question: the father of Egyptian nationalism held this ambiguous colonized-colonizer stance toward Sudan.
- SEED: Angle: how founding nationalist thinkers of colonized states simultaneously replicated racial hierarchies against their own neighbors.
Related
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese nationalism drew on blacks long considered slaves (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.86)
- Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing. (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Egyptian nationalism’s founder also codified racial disdain for the Sudanese
#corroborates(0.90) - Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan
#corroborates(0.85) - Early Egyptian nationalism fused Sudanese racial denigration with Nile Valley unity
#corroborates(0.85) - Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves.
#corroborates(0.85) - Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other
#corroborates(0.80) - Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese
#corroborates(0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063 - Egyptian nationalism combined anticolonial critique with imperial condescension toward Sudan.
#corroborates(0.80) - Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan
#expands(0.75) - Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan.
#corroborates(0.75) - Egyptian anti-British nationalists still endorsed civilizational hierarchy and empire in Sudan
#corroborates(0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510 - Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination
#expands(0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771 - Mustafa Kamil founded Egypt’s Nationalist Party blending Egyptian and Islamic-Ottoman loyalties
#corroborates(0.70) - Kämil described the Sudan as the living spirit of the Egyptian nation
#corroborates(0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 717 - Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan
#corroborates(0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 - Egyptian nationalist Mustafa Kamil claimed the Sudan as Egyptian property seized illegally
#expands(0.60)