Islam & Christianity: Conflict or Conciliation?: A Comparative and Textual Analysis of the Koran & the Bible

The Koran from the beginning has sought conciliation with the “People of the Book.” It presented itself as “all-inclusive” to members of all religions based on their sincerity in accepting the truth when it gets to them. In this context it states that all those who believe in God and the last day regardless of label will have nothing to fear. Christians are termed as the “closest” to the Muslims in “love”(compared to all other groups). Mary the mother of Jesus is honored in the Koran as “a woman chosen above the women of all nations” (Koran 3:42).