The Reality of Modernity and Its Impact on Contemporary Arab Thought

Abstract

     Modernity is not just a call or a message that we preach. Rather, it is a set of successive and accumulated transformations that work to develop society through the development of its economy, ways of thinking, ways of living and ways of expression. Thus, it is not limited to the mastery of the technological application of science or the possession of material products for a society to become modern, because this feature may be found even in societies described as backward, and this type of modernity is superficial and does not rise to the level of true modernity, which includes the intellectual and cultural aspect and is not limited to the material aspect, as modernity has features of individuality, rationality and relativism and levels of political, economic, social, moral and intellectual levels.