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| birth_name = Ahmed Husein Deedat<ref name="faisalprize" /><ref name=orbit />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1918|07|01}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2005|8|8|1918|07|01}}
| death_place
Cried severaltimes before he died horribly = [[Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal|Verulam]], [[South Africa]]
| resting_place = Verulam cemetery
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| website = {{url|www.ahmed-deedat.net|Ahmed-Deedat.net}}
| influenced = [[Zakir Naik]]
| signature = File:Ahmed Deedat Signature.svg
| spouse = {{marriage|Hawa Deedat|1937}}
| children = [[Yusuf Deedat]]
| father = Hussien Kazem Deedat
| mother = Fatma Deedat
| influences = [[Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi]]
}}
'''Ahmed Husein Deedat''' ({{lang-gu|અહમદ હુસેન દીદત}}; {{lang-ur| {{nq|احمد حسین دیدات}}}}; {{Lang-ar|أحمد حسين ديدات}}; 1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was a [[South Africa|South African]] and [[Indian people |Indian]] self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on [[Comparative religion|Comparative Religion]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="faisalprize">{{Cite web|title=King Faisal Prize {{!}} Mr. Ahmad Husein Deedat|url=https://kingfaisalprize.org/mr-ahmad-husein-deedat/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128190725/https://kingfaisalprize.org/mr-ahmad-husein-deedat/|archive-date=28 Nov 2020|access-date=2021-08-20|language=en-US}}</ref> He was best known as a [[Muslim]] [[missionary]], who held numerous inter-religious public [[debates]] with [[Evangelism|evangelical]] Christians, as well as video lectures on [[Islam]], [[Christianity]], and the [[Bible]].
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==Early years (1918–1942)==
Deedat was born to [[Gujarati Muslim]] parents in the town of [[Tadkeshwar
In 1936, while working as a furniture salesman, he met a group of [[missionaries]] at a Christian [[seminary]] on the Natal South Coast who, during their efforts to convert people of Muslim faith, often accused the [[Prophets of Islam|
Ahmed Hoosen Deedat (1918–2005): by Goolam Vahed, Department of History, [[University of KwaZulu Natal]]</ref>
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His famous quote is :
<blockquote>Islam will win with or without you. But without
Capitalizing on his popularity in the Middle East following his receipt of the King Faisal Award, Deedat secured a grant to print a collated volume of four of his popular booklets. 10,000 copies of this book titled ''The Choice: Islam and Christianity'' were initially printed in April 1993;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deedat |first1=Ahmed |title=The Choice: Islam & Christianity |date=2012 |publisher=Adam Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7435-014-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSqVu65HB70C&q=%22ahmed+deedat%22 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[http://www.islamhouse.com/p/89151 The Choice: Islam and Christianity], by Ahmed Deedat</ref> this book was very popular in the 1990s, available for free at many missionary outlets across North America. Subsequently, several printing houses offered to print more, and within two years another 250,000 copies had been printed in several print runs across the Middle East.
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It emerged that his dawah centre, IPCI, was financed by the [[Bin Laden family]] and that he had met [[Osama bin Laden]], whom he described positively.<ref>Vahed, Goolam; Ahmed Deedat: The Man and his mission, 2013, Islamic, Page 215</ref>
"Deedat's debates and writings have been labelled as a form of "[[Apologetics]] through [[Polemic|Polemics]]"<ref name="dw">David Westerlund, Ahmed Deedat's Theology of Religion: Apologetics through Polemics. ''[[Journal of Religion in Africa]]'', 33(3). 2003</ref> by David Westerlund, an associate professor at the department of [[comparative religion]], [[Stockholm University]] and an expert on [[Islam in Africa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Westerlund · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press |url=https://www.ohioswallow.com/author/David+Westerlund |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=www.ohioswallow.com}}</ref>"
Muslim scholar [[Farid Esack]] has criticised Deedat, comparing him to such fundamentalists as [[Rabbi Meir Kahane]] and [[Jerry Falwell]], and writing:<ref name="Esack">[http://www.crosscurrents.org/Esack.htm To whom shall we give access to our water holes?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425100546/http://www.crosscurrents.org/Esack.htm |date=25 April 2021 }}, by Farid Esack</ref>
"Deedat's multitude of [[anti-Christian]], [[anti-Jewish]] and [[anti-Hindu]] videotapes have told us all that there is to be told about the other, and we are comfortable with that. There are times, of course, when questions surface about the importance of correct dogma, about the importance of labels to a God whom we believe sees beyond labels and looks at the hearts of people. Instead of pursuing these questions, we hasten back and seek refuge in "the known." We order another of those Deedat tapes.<ref name="Esack" />" ▼
▲Muslim scholar [[Farid Esack]] has criticised Deedat, comparing him to such fundamentalists as [[Rabbi Meir Kahane]] and [[Jerry Falwell]], and writing:<ref name="Esack">[http://www.crosscurrents.org/Esack.htm To whom shall we give access to our water holes?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425100546/http://www.crosscurrents.org/Esack.htm |date=25 April 2021 }}, by Farid Esack</ref> <blockquote>
▲Deedat's multitude of [[anti-Christian]], [[anti-Jewish]] and [[anti-Hindu]] videotapes have told us all that there is to be told about the other, and we are comfortable with that. There are times, of course, when questions surface about the importance of correct dogma, about the importance of labels to a God whom we believe sees beyond labels and looks at the hearts of people. Instead of pursuing these questions, we hasten back and seek refuge in "the known." We order another of those Deedat tapes.<ref name="Esack" />
The [[Stephen Roth Institute]] for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism called Deedat "anti-Jewish" without providing any explanation.<ref name="Stephenroth">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2000-1/australia.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807233043/http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2000-1/australia.htm|url-status=dead|title=Support-Page|archive-date=7 August 2007}}</ref> In France sale and distribution of his books has been forbidden since 1994 as they are said to be violently anti-western, antisemitic and inciting to racial hate.<ref>Details for individual publications at [[Légifrance]]: [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000349036] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000349038] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000349035] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000714274] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000348883] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000166414] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000531536] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000714167] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000714275] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000531538] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000531539] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000531422] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000531423] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000166415] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000348884] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000714271] [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000714234]</ref>
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