The article examines the role that foreign Islamic organisations play in the whole process of Islamic revival in Crimea. Their role can be observed in every sphere of that process: support for autonomous Muslim communities; building of mosques; organisation of Islamic education; financing pilgrimage to Mecca. Despite their huge role, the presence of foreign Islamic organisations is often seen by national Crimean Tatar leaders as a threat to the unity of the people and even to stability in the peninsula. Foreign sponsors of the Islamic revival are often charged with fostering 'radical' Muslim organisations which are forming an Islamic opposition to the major Crimean Tatar national and religious bodies. To explain this ambivalence requires a more detailed analysis of the role of foreign Muslim organisations in the Islamic revival in Crimea. To achieve this, I propose to examine their role both through a quantitative analysis of their impact in the revival process and from the point of view of the Crimean Tatars themselves.
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