1918 - 2005
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, Ahmed Deedat ranks 937 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1838 - 1889
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 931
1650 - 1707
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 932
1589 - 1638
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 933
1761 - 1815
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 934
1869 - 1945
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 935
1780 - 1844
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 936
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 937
1913 - 1980
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 938
1934 - 2015
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 939
1205 - 1270
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 940
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 941
1926 - 2005
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 942
1751 - 1812
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 943
Among people born in 1918, Ahmed Deedat ranks 43. Before 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 42. Before 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.
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 37
1918 - 2013
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 38
1918 - 1958
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 39
1918 - 2000
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 40
1918 - 2009
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 41
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 42
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 43
1918 - 2016
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 44
1918 - 2019
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 45
1918 - 1983
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 46
1918 - 1992
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 47
1918 - 1943
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 48
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 49
1927 - 2005
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 36
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 37
1907 - 2005
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 38
1914 - 2005
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 39
1915 - 2005
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 40
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 41
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 42
1926 - 2005
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 43
1937 - 2005
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 44
1935 - 2005
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 45
1921 - 2005
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 46
1921 - 2005
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 47
1916 - 2005
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 48
Among people born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 111 out of 1,493. Before 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).
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 105
1924 - 2018
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 106
1134 - 1196
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 107
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 108
1936 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 109
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 110
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 111
1825 - 1917
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 112
1943 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 113
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 114
1815 - 1879
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 115
1270 - 1350
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 116
1827 - 1890
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 117
Among writers born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 19. Before 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).
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 13
1608 - 1650
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 14
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 15
1912 - 1990
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 16
1134 - 1196
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 17
1838 - 1894
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 18
1918 - 2005
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 19
1270 - 1350
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 20
601 - 700
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 21
1000 BC - 1000 BC
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 22
1899 - 1976
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 23
1352 - 1448
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 24
1551 - 1602
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 25