WRITER

Ahmed Deedat

1918 - 2005

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Deedat is the 1,213th most popular writer (down from 851st in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from India (down from 107th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Writer.

Ahmed Deedat is most famous for his book "What Is Your Religion?" in which he argues that Islam is the true religion.

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Among writers, Ahmed Deedat ranks 1,213 out of 7,302. Before him are Rex Stout, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Diana Mosley, Irwin Shaw, Khushal Khattak, and Noah Gordon. After him are Shi Nai'an, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Matteo Bandello, Tahar Ben Jelloun, James Clavell, and Blaise Cendrars.

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Among people born in 1918, Ahmed Deedat ranks 68. Before him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Yigal Allon, Edwin G. Krebs, Rosemary Kennedy, Sam Walton, and Robert Aldrich. After him are Kazu Naoki, Henryk Szeryng, Mary Anderson, Kakuei Tanaka, John Forsythe, and Jeff Chandler. Among people deceased in 2005, Ahmed Deedat ranks 52. Before him are Robert Wise, Barbara Bel Geddes, Richard Smalley, Rosemary Kennedy, Peter Benenson, and Consuelo Velázquez. After him are Victoria de los Ángeles, Robert Sheckley, Ibrahim Ferrer, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Wim Duisenberg, and Ephraim Kishon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 185 out of 1,861. Before him are Tukaram (1608), Nana Sahib (1824), Shantideva (685), I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), and Mahesh Bhatt (1948). After him are Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Ajay Devgn (1969), Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Tansen (1493), and Kareena Kapoor (1980).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 23. Before him are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Basava (1134), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Tukaram (1608), and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899). After him are Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vidyapati (1352), Deepak Chopra (1946), and B. K. S. Iyengar (1918).

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