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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 1,561,530 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ahmed Deedat is the 937th most popular writer (down from 905th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from India (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 19th 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 937 out of 5,755Before him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Ahmad Khani, Ivan Gundulić, Jan Potocki, Felix Salten, and Charles Nodier. After him are Vinicius de Moraes, Marshall Rosenberg, Tannhäuser, Taha Hussein, John Fowles, and Emanuel Schikaneder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ahmed Deedat ranks 43Before him are Birgit Nilsson, Jerome Karle, André Bazin, Lila Kedrova, Günther Rall, and Jens Christian Skou. After him are Patricio Aylwin, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Robert Aldrich, Sam Walton, Hans Scholl, and Paul D. Boyer. Among people deceased in 2005, Ahmed Deedat ranks 42Before him are Ibrahim Ferrer, George Dantzig, Lucien Laurent, Robert Wise, Brother Roger, and Birgit Nilsson. After him are John Fowles, Hunter S. Thompson, Wim Duisenberg, Peter Benenson, Mary Jackson, and Consuelo Velázquez.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 111 out of 1,493Before him are Pete Best (1941), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), and Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866). After him are Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Pervez Musharraf (1943), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815), Namdev (1270), and Jyotirao Phule (1827).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 19Before him are Vātsyāyana (300), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Basava (1134), and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838). After him are Namdev (1270), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bharata Muni (-1000), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Vidyapati (1352), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551).