The Mahdï replaced Egypt’s domestic empire with a nationalist hero figure

Evidence

Whereas at first a private and domestic empire, Egypt’s Sudan became the Mahdï’s Sudan, ushering in a fiery and eloquent new character among the Sudanese that had previously peopled Sanüa's literary repertoire. The Mahdï picked up the nationalist gauntlet dropped by the Uräbï rebels, and, in Sanü`a’s construction of events, used it to challenge and defeat the British. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 490

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan coloniality comparison: the shift from private domestic empire to nationalist challenge.