摘要:The article examines the historical background of the emergence of the Islamic socio-cultural factor of transformation of the socio-political process in Scotland. The authors believe that the study of this problem has not only scientific and theoretical, but also significant practical and managerial significance (especially for non-Muslim countries with positive dynamics of the Muslim population). The authors note that the countries that historically belong to the Christian civilization are currently experiencing an alien civilizational presence, which significantly transforms the established socio-cultural foundations of socio-political processes. As an example, the article considers Scotland (and, in part, England). At the same time, the authors believe that the scientific understanding of civilizational and national styles of development of socio-political processes should largely be based on an understanding of the corresponding historical imperatives. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to consider and scientifically analyze the historical background of the emergence of the Islamic socio-cultural factor of transformation of the socio-political process in Scotland from the end of the XVI century to the first quarter of the XX century. The article concludes that during this period, the presence of Muslims in Britain gradually expanded and their socio-cultural influence increased. At the end of the XVI century – the beginning of the XVII century there was only indirect evidence of a Muslim presence in Scotland (and England), but since the first quarter of the twentieth century, the role of Muslims in Scottish society has become so prominent that it allows us to talk about the real appearance of an Islamic socio-cultural factor of transformational changes in the socio-political process in Scotland. In this article, a wide range of historical sources was used, which served as empirical material for justifying the authors' conclusions.