Ahmed Deedat
Muslim thinker, orator and missionary from South Africa (1918–2005) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ahmed Husein Deedat (Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات; Arabic: أحمد حسين ديدات; 1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was a South African and Indian self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion.[3][1] He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible.
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Born | (1918-07-01)1 July 1918 |
Died | 8 August 2005(2005-08-08) (aged 87) |
Resting place | Verulam cemetery |
Religion | Islam |
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Hawa Deedat (m. 1937) |
Children | Yusuf Deedat |
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Denomination | Sunni |
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Awards | King Faisal International Prize (1986) |
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Website | Ahmed-Deedat.net |
Years active | 1942–1996 |
Known for | Comparative religion |
Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity.[4] He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.[5]