This training made him discover Enlightenment thinkers and the ideals of the Renaissance and the Reformation, which were different from the teachings of his family's conservative milieu.

[5] In addition to the numerous honorary titles and awards he received,[6] Djait was member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and was appointed president of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts on February 17, 2012.

[3] He believed that national identity and religious culture may be related but are not mutually constitutive and supported the political principle of laicite (secularism) "which will not be hostile to Islam, and does not draw its motivation from anti-Islamic feeling.

[citation needed] Other works include Europe and Islam (1978), The Revelation, the Quran and the Prophecy (1986), The Crisis of Islamic Culture (2004) and a ground-breaking study entitled The Life of Muhammad, first published in French between 2001 and 2007 and released in English in 2012.

The three volumes of the latter study, which cover the itinerary of Muhammad and the concomitant evolution of Islam, are subtitled "Revelation and Prophecy," "Predication in Mecca," and "The Prophet’s Life in Medina and the Triumph of Islam."