The Islamic world must put forth its own distinctive approach in dealing with women issues in modern period. Problems of Muslim women facing in modern period should be discussed, related solution proposals should be suggested, and universal solutions should be looked for universal issues in an interaction atmosphere of women and women oriented organizations all over the world. WISE is a platform formed by WIF (World Islamic Forum) with proactive perspective and its intellectual contribution is to be ensured in building soft power/public diplomacy of the Islamic world with global women governance.

It was decided during the 6^th World Islamic Forum Meeting which was organized in Islamabad on 06-08 March 2017 and then an official letter was received which invites Malaysia to be host country from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. With the initiative of International Islamic University Malaysia, the (first) World Muslim Women Summit and Exhibition | WISE 2017, was held on 23-25 September 2016 in Kuala Lumpur in cooperation of World Islamic Forum (WIF), Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development Malaysia, Turkey based women NGOs and Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM). Based on Kuala Lumpur declaration, it is honorably accepted that with global institutionalization the 2017 Summit will be held in Turkey.