Throughout human history, transformations shape the philosophical event in all its social dimensions... as transformation originally traces back to a set of conceptions that emerge prior to the event itself, leading philosophical thought to return once more to question those transformations as events embodied in social and human reality.

The Arab and Islamic world witnessed serious and striking transformations at the beginning of the third millennium, many manifestations and aspects of which contemporary thought in the latter half of the previous century had already foreseen—predicting waves of revolutions and wars that Arab nations in particular would experience. Those conceptions focused on the idea that concepts of democracy, justice, and freedom would create a generation absorbed in concepts of movement such as freedom and change, acting upon them to alter political regimes and certain social values alike.

Technology and the information revolution have worked to modernize and develop Arab society, enabling it to activate the capacity to communicate with the Other, and to consider establishing modes of dialogue and coexistence among civilizations, cultures, and religions. Furthermore, successive events have highlighted that contemporary societies are no longer entities of a singular identity; rather, they are moving toward complex identity, which in itself is the most prominent manifestation of the strength and intensity of transformation in the structure of contemporary societies.