Central Asia: State and religion in the interpretation of arab researchers

The article is devoted to the analysis of the approaches of the Arab scientific community to the relations between the State and religion in the Central Asian region, radical groups and terrorism. The purpose of the proposed article is to further study, synthesize and classify the views of Arab researchers and draw new conclusions based on them. The work uses methods of historiographic and political analysis, methods of religious studies. The content analysis method was used, and the problem-chronological and comparative analysis methods were used as auxiliary methods. In the course of the study, important, controversial and debatable issues of the history of Uzbekistan were re-examined from the point of view of Arab researchers, new data were provided and new aspects of the problem were identified. The study showed that in the Arab countries, knowledge about the religious situation in Central Asia is more one-sided and limited to the activities of certain radical Islamic groups. In the final part, on the basis of expert assessments and judgments of the Arab scientific community on this topic, a spectrum of approaches on the negative impact on the interaction of Uzbekistan with the Arab countries is presented, as well as several recommendations.