AHC/PC: Neo-Bactrian/Syncretic Hellenistic "Rennaisance" in Persia/Afghanistan during the 1700's

During Antiquity, Alexander the Great sweeped across the Persian Empire, reaching all the way to the Indus. In the following centuries, the region became hellenized in ways similar to Egypt, until the Arab conquests brought Islam to the region and reshaped the cultural landscape.

Is it possible that, centuries later, about the 1700's or so, for the region to experience a neo-hellenistic or Neo-Bactrian revival akin to the European Rennaisance? Perhaps coinciding with a new Islamic Golden Age? If so, what would be the needed conditions for such an event to happen?
 
Any sort of cultural renaissance in 18th century Afghanistan/Pakistan would look towards either the Caliphates or possibly ancient Persia, not the Greeks. For a culture in the region to actually look back on the Greeks as any sort of predecessor IMO you’d need the Bactrians (the Iranian ethnic group) to survive; a PoD as late as after the initial Arab conquests might manage it.
 
The closest you'll ever get to this scenario is an empire emerging out of either Kafiristan or the Hunza valley (maybe after a period of EXTREME instability in either Afghanistan or Kashmir, I mean the kind of instability that prevents the Sunni Muslim majority from reacting to the ascendance of a pagan or Ismaili Shia empire) that somehow manages to make its culture the leading one rather than adopting the usual Persianate one.

And this is still light years from what you want, because the relations that the modern-day Nuristani and Hunza people have to ancient Greeks are tenous to say the least.
 
During Antiquity, Alexander the Great sweeped across the Persian Empire, reaching all the way to the Indus. In the following centuries, the region became hellenized in ways similar to Egypt, until the Arab conquests brought Islam to the region and reshaped the cultural landscape.

Is it possible that, centuries later, about the 1700's or so, for the region to experience a neo-hellenistic or Neo-Bactrian revival akin to the European Rennaisance? Perhaps coinciding with a new Islamic Golden Age? If so, what would be the needed conditions for such an event to happen?

No hellenic revival. Maybe a neo-Islamic Golden Age/neo-Persian revival. Not sure what to imagine of that... Persian Culture and Language was popular among the Turco-Mongolian Muslim States from the Balkans in the West to Bengal in the East.

Neo-Bactrian revival is not going to happen. I doubt anything Hellenic survived the Middle Ages let alone post-Mongol conquests.

By the way, Central Asia had lost prominence by the 1700s. The region wasn't what it used to be in the 1400s or so.
 
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The extent of Hellenization was far greater in Egypt, where Greek was used as a language of law and education for centuries under an (initially) stable Ptolemaic army and the Roman rule in its various forms. While urban models and architecture were influenced by Greek and the langauge saw some spread as a "royal" language of currency, it is worth noting that the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms were as Indianized as they were Hellenized, frequently using bilingual inscriptions of Greek and local languages written in the Kharosthi script. And, of course, there is the popularity of Buddhism among both the native majority and the royal castes (especially in the time of the Indo-Greek Menander) to consider. Furthermore, these Greek states were all swept aside by the Kushans, who adopted not Greek but Bactrian as their language. While Greek influence was retained as a way of showing continuity with past rulers and legends, the most relevant cultural concerns for the Kushans in their time was India and Buddhism.

So in short, I think a "classical" or "antiquity" themed revival in the area would focus less on reviving the culture of Greeks who only held political power for say 100-150 years and whose culture remained relevant for, say, another hundred at most, and a lot more on the millenia-long tradition of East-West exchange of which Greeks Scythians, Tocharians, Kushans, and others all played a part.

EDIT: Of course, this is all said with the hindsight offered by modern archaeology, so how a 1700s movement would choose to glorify the past is anyone's guess. I expect that kinship with the Persian Empire would likely be considered more important, under the influence of Ferdowsi (a Khorasan native) and Hafez.
 
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