Ahmed Deedat
Author
1918 – 2005
Who was Ahmed Deedat?
Ahmed Hoosen Deedat was a South African writer and public speaker of Indian descent. He was best known as a Muslim missionary who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures, most of which centred on Islam, Christianity and the Bible. He also established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several booklets on Islam and Christianity which were widely distributed by the organisation. He was awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his 50 years of missionary work. One focus of his work was providing Muslims with theological tools for defending themselves against active proselytising by Christian missionaries. He used English to get his message across to Muslims and non-Muslims in the western world.
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- Born
- Jul 1, 1918
Surat - Parents
- Spouses
- Hawa Deedat
( - 2005/08/08)
- Hawa Deedat
- Religion
- Islam
- Sunni Islam
- Ethnicity
- Indian South Africans
- Indian people
- Memon people
- Nationality
- South Africa
- India
- Profession
- Lived in
- Gujarat
- Died
- Aug 8, 2005
Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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