Ahmed Deedat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ahmed Deedat

South African writer and orator

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1918

Place of Birth: Surat, Gujarat, India

Date of Death: 08-Aug-2005

Profession: writer, philosopher

Nationality: South Africa, India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ahmed Hoosen Deedat (Gujarati: ???? ????? ????; Urdu: ???? ??????) (1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005) was a South African writer and public speaker of Indian descent.
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.
He wrote and lectured in English.