The Mahdist revolt against Egypt won admiration among Egyptians themselves.
Evidence
The Mahdïya in the Sudan created new heroes for the pan-Islamic movement. 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
Categorization
- XREF: Central to the comparative coloniality picture: Sudan’s anti-Egyptian rebellion embraced by Egyptian pan-Islamists despite its anti-Egyptian thrust.
- QUESTION: How did Egyptian admiration for the MahdĂŻ square with Egyptian claims to civilizational authority over the Sudanese sketched in the al-NadĂŻm essays?