Islamic culture exists in a complex web of exchanges, in which important communities of non-Muslims have played a dynamic role in creating shared projects of collective identification. This new series reveals new perspectives, bringing to life the long and varied contributions of Jewish, Christian (including Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Mozarabic and Syriac), Samaritan, Gnostic, Manichaean, Mandean, Harranian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, 'Shamanist' and other cultures to the intellectual, ideological, legal, economic and technological development of Islamic civilisation.