This book on interfaith friendship is of interest to lay people, academics, researchers, and students in the field of religious study, especially interreligious dialogue in general, and Christian-Muslim dialogue in particular, in today's religious and ethical pluralistic world. It shows how indispensable mutual respect among believers of different faiths is for reciprocated understanding and tolerance in religious conflict resolution and prevention of religious prejudice and hostility in the community and the world.

António Barbosa da Silva, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology and Health Care Ethics, Ansgar University College, Kristiansand, Norway

In Muslim-Christian Friendships and Religious Change: Transformative Relationships, Torstein Try offers a timely and empirically grounded exploration of how interfaith friendships shape religious self-understanding and practice, challenge prejudice, and foster mutual understanding. Drawing on personal narratives and in-depth interviews in Norway, this rich and nuanced study demonstrates how everyday relationships and friendship between Muslims and Christians become creative spaces for dialogue, empathy, and spiritual growth. An insightful and hopeful contribution to interreligious studies, this book is essential for anyone interested in religious dialogue, diversity, and the transformative power of friendship.

Kari Storstein Haug, Professor, VID Specialized University, Norway

We 'know' that friendship with a person unlike ourselves will affect the prejudice we have towards the group that he or she belongs to. In this book, Torstein Try does serious fieldwork-based research to demonstrate the real-life impact of friendship on our understanding of the 'other.' He is not promoting a silver bullet solution for solving social problems but rather offering a nuanced analysis of the case studies he observed. I believe it is a very important work for our time's theology.

Martin Bellerose, Director of Protestant Theological Institute of the United Church of Canada (IPTEUC) and Theological Education in French United Church of Canada