Islamic culture regiona culture region, or culture area (or Global Village) is an area where common cultural components, traits, or characteristics have developed over time, and are shared among various societies, due to a variety of causal factors such as immigration, war, colonialism, forced acculturation, technology and travel advances, etc., designated as the Islamic Global Villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived, the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map. includes the countries of North Africa above the Sub-Saharan region, and all of the countries in the Middle East, except Israel. There are 57 countries in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, but all are not located in the Islamic Global Village.