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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Deedat has received more than 1,669,029 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ahmed Deedat is the 852nd most popular writer (up from 936th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from India (up from 110th in 2019) and the 16th 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

Among writers, Ahmed Deedat ranks 852 out of 7,302. Before him are Juliette Récamier, Varlam Shalamov, W. H. Auden, Stesichorus, Jules Renard, and Frank Wedekind. After him are Vicente Aleixandre, Meša Selimović, Philippe Ariès, Jan Neruda, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Ernesto Sabato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ahmed Deedat ranks 33. Before him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Jens Christian Skou, Rosalia Lombardo, Franco Modigliani, Frederick Reines, and Yigal Allon. After him are Bertram Brockhouse, Arthur Kornberg, James Tobin, Maurice Druon, Jerome Karle, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Among people deceased in 2005, Ahmed Deedat ranks 35. Before him are Pat Morita, George F. Kennan, Lucien Laurent, Milton Obote, Moustapha Akkad, and Max Schmeling. After him are Maria Schell, Mary Jackson, Brother Roger, Birgit Nilsson, John Fowles, and George Dantzig.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 107 out of 1,861. Before him are Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Kim Philby (1912), and Syed Ahmad Khan (1817). After him are Razia Sultana (1205), Tukaram (1608), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Sushruta (-620), Vātsyāyana (300), and Dhyan Chand (1905).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 16. Before him are Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Sarojini Naidu (1879), and Basava (1134). After him are Tukaram (1608), Vātsyāyana (300), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Bharata Muni (-1000), and Vidyapati (1352).

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