Issue of Christians Being ‘Closer’ to Muslims from Islamic Perspective (Prof. Dr. Kemal POLAT)

In this article, the point that Muslims and Christians are closer by Islamic literature especially in view of Maide verse 82 are investigated. Some theological, sociological, moral and psychological reasons of Christian-Muslim closeness are dealth with. It was determined that Koran makes no over generalization regarding relations with other religions and does not carry the aim of discriminating religions as friendly or enemy by certain classification, taking good will and behavior by the followers of other religions as a reference for feal reason of closeness or remoteness.

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