After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.
Dr. Jacques Waardenburg taught at the Universities of California and Utrecht before holding the chair of Religionswissenschaft at the University of Lausanne. He is among the internationally leading experts in the history of Islam.