The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks.

Evidence

It is important to note that Fawzï Pasha always uses the word misrïyyün (Egyptians) when speaking of the administration in the Sudan. His text shows, however, that the Sudanese, particularly those from abïd tribes (non-Muslim tribes), also refer to all people in government uniforms or with military authority as Atrak (Turks). … The note explains that in the Mahdist Sudan the term Turk had no “precise ethnic significance” and was later transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian elite. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1143 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (#expands, via linked claim)

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 107; Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (+9 more)

Related

• Arabic-speaking Egyptians were considered Turks in the Sudan context (similarity 0.94)
• Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (similarity 0.92)
• Sudanese labeled any uniformed authority figure a Turk regardless of ethnicity (similarity 0.89)
• Sudanese called all colonial administrators Turks regardless of nationality (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.89)
• Sudanese perceived Egyptian soldiers as ‘Turks,’ destabilizing Egypt’s civilizing ideology (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese memory of the Turkïya obscures Arabic-speaking Egyptians’ real role in that colonial administration (similarity 0.87)
• Sudanese lumped Egyptian soldiers with their Ottoman Turkish oppressors (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt’s colonial rule over Sudan was known to Sudanese as the Turkïya (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese called all colonial administrators Turks regardless of nationality #corroborates (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1143
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians #expands (0.60)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121
• Kalmar note that while the term Turk was often used to designate the Ottoman forces, it was used because Turks were the prototypical Muslims of the time period. #corroborates (0.55)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #complicates (0.50)