Malaibar Institute for Advanced Studies (MIAS) is a research institute in Markaz Knowledge City, the prestigious edu-turned township launched by Jamia Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya in Calicut, Kerala, India. It focuses on promoting independent research and advanced studies in subjects with deep human significance. In the process, MIAS attempts to collaborate with some leading research universities and foundations. MIAS conducts seminars, workshops, and international conferences on a variety of areas that ranges from science, religion and technology in a regular course of time. At first of its inception, MIAS intends to launch academic conferences and seminars every year on Islam and Muslim World which discuss various issues, concepts and concerns over Islam and Muslim society. In the first of its series, the present conference focuses on a specific theme ‘Islam and Open Civilization: Art, Science and Literature in Contemporary Muslim World’ which is very relevant in the arena of Islamic Intellectual gamut. It has often been considered that, in the extended historical trajectory of humanity, Islamic civilization was subjected to multifarious constructive elements. After the advancement of the revealed knowledge to the humanity through the prophetic engagements, a thought over the purposeful knowledge and its productive practicing which encapsulate the ethical order also were begun to disseminate to various landscapes.

Islam turned to a civilizational pattern after attaining the capacity to develop a distinctive precepts and practical method for contested social discourses, knowledge capital, political affairs, scientific production, and artistic representations and further other functional factors. The compilation of such different factors helped the religion develop a glorious civilization that extended from Arabian Peninsula to Andalusia in the medieval times.In fact, numerous inputs have been vested behind the functioning of Islamic civilization in past years, which had been grappled from the revealed knowledge tradition in Muslim intellectual terrain and spiritual worldview. Designing of a very distinctive epistemology to trigger a plural life style to Muslims particularly with the massive interactions with various sciences of knowledge and empirical reproductions were enumerated with formulating such common fundamental linguistics and philosophy. Various scholarships and spiritual orders were kept a constant vigilance to frame and reframe everything pertain to the Muslim affairs in particular and plural systems in general. Thus, a Civilizational approach encircled with Islamic doctrines and Muslim cultural capital has been known as an open civilization- where one could find the possibilities of meeting multiple social discourses and diverse disciplinary streams.