1918 - 2005
Ahmed Husein Deedat (Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات Arabic: احمد حسين ديدات), also known as Ahmed Deedat (1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was a self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion from South Africa. 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 1,256,941 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ahmed Deedat is the 905th most popular writer (down from 884th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from India (down from 86th in 2019) and the 15th 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 905 out of 5,794. Before him are Alexander Griboyedov, Nicolas Chamfort, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Stesichorus, Bettina von Arnim, and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. After him are B. Traven, Karl Harrer, H. L. Mencken, Varlam Shalamov, Charles Maurras, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.
1795 - 1829
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 899
1741 - 1794
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 900
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 901
630 BC - 555 BC
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 902
1785 - 1859
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 903
1622 - 1676
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 904
1918 - 2005
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 905
1882 - 1969
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 906
1890 - 1926
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 907
1880 - 1956
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 908
1907 - 1982
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 909
1868 - 1952
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 910
1788 - 1857
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 911
Among people born in 1918, Ahmed Deedat ranks 36. Before him are Franco Modigliani, André Bazin, Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, Jens Christian Skou, and Frederick Reines. After him are John Forsythe, Günther Rall, Chaim Herzog, Takashi Kasahara, Robert Aldrich, and Richard Winters. Among people deceased in 2005, Ahmed Deedat ranks 40. Before him are Milton Obote, Birgit Nilsson, Ibrahim Ferrer, George F. Kennan, Brother Roger, and Aslan Maskhadov. After him are Edward Heath, Akira Yoshizawa, Robert Wise, Hunter S. Thompson, Wim Duisenberg, and Robert Sheckley.
1918 - 2003
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 30
1918 - 1958
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 31
1918 - 2007
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 32
1918 - 2007
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 33
1918 - 2018
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 34
1918 - 1998
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 35
1918 - 2005
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 36
1918 - 2010
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 37
1918 - 2009
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 38
1918 - 1997
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 39
1918 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 40
1918 - 1983
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 41
1918 - 2011
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 42
1925 - 2005
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 34
1918 - 2005
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 35
1927 - 2005
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 36
1904 - 2005
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 37
1915 - 2005
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 38
1951 - 2005
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 39
1918 - 2005
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 40
1916 - 2005
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 41
1911 - 2005
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 42
1914 - 2005
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 43
1937 - 2005
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 44
1935 - 2005
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 45
1928 - 2005
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 46
Among people born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 93 out of 1,227. Before him are Ajatashatru (-500), Tukaram (1608), Maudgalyayana (-568), Rajendra Prasad (1884), Deepak Chopra (1946), and Engelbert Humperdinck (1936). After him are Samudragupta (335), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Kim Philby (1912), Sambhaji (1657), Ramanuja (1017), and Gerald Durrell (1925).
500 BC - 460 BC
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 87
1608 - 1650
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 88
568 BC - 484 BC
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 89
1884 - 1963
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 90
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 91
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 92
1918 - 2005
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 93
335 - 380
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 94
1965 - Present
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 95
1912 - 1988
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 96
1657 - 1689
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 97
1017 - 1137
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 98
1925 - 1995
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 99
Among writers born in India, Ahmed Deedat ranks 15. Before him are Salman Rushdie (1947), Premchand (1880), Vātsyāyana (300), Meera (1498), Tukaram (1608), and Deepak Chopra (1946). After him are Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Savitribai Phule (1831), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Namdev (1270), and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899).
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 9
1880 - 1936
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 10
300 - Present
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 11
1498 - 1546
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 12
1608 - 1650
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 13
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 14
1918 - 2005
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 15
1879 - 1949
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 16
1134 - 1196
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 17
1831 - 1897
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 18
1912 - 1990
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 19
1270 - 1350
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 20
1899 - 1976
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 21