Ahmed Deedat

Shaykh Ahmed Deedat
Personal life
BornAhmed Husein Deedat
(1918-07-01)1 July 1918
Tadkeshwar, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died8 August 2005(2005-08-08) (aged 87)
Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Resting placeVerulam cemetery
Spouse
Hawa Deedat
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(m. 1937)​
ChildrenYusuf Deedat
Parents
  • Hussien Kazem Deedat (father)
  • Fatma Deedat (mother)
Signature
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Profession
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced
AwardsKing Faisal International Prize (1986)
Years active1942–1996
Known forComparative religion
WebsiteAhmed-Deedat.net

Ahmed Husein Deedat (1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005) was a South African-Indian Islamic author, intellectual, and orator on comparative religion. 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.

Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity. He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.


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