 During his work, he was also in correspondence with numerous specialists of the Quran and Islam.Bērziņš has received various awards and honours such as the Three Star Order (1995), the Zinaida Lazda award (1994), the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science (1995) and the Spidola Award (2000).In 2009 and again in 2010 he was named one of the World's 500 most influential Muslims in survey conducted by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center (though Bērziņš is actually Lutheran).