Significance of Islam

The author of Age of Anger states that his book aims to take a better look at historical and contemporary sources of the kind of nationalism and terrorism we see today. He attempts to remove Islam from the center of these narratives because he feels that “those routinely evoking a worldwide clash of civilizations in which Islam is pitted against the West, and religion against reason, are not able to explain many political, social and environmental ills” (16). The way in which Islam has intersected with militant nationalism and with other ideologies is, however, explored in detail and provides a different perspective to the role in which this religion plays in international relations today.