Islamic culture is a term primarily used in
secular academia to describe the cultural practices common to historically
Islamic people. The early forms of
Muslim culture were predominantly
Arab. With the rapid expansion of the
Islamic empires, Muslim culture has influenced and assimilated much from the
Persian,
Caucasian,
Bangladeshi,
Turkic,
Mongol,
Chinese,
Indian,
Malay,
Somali,
Berber,
Egyptian,
Indonesian,
Filipino,
Greco-
Roman Byzantine,
Spanish,
Sicilian,
Balkanic and
Western cultures.