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'''Ahmed Hussein Deedat''' ({{lang-gu|અહમદ હુસેન દીદત}}; {{lang-ur| {{nq|احمد حسین دیدات}}}}; {{Lang-ar|أحمد حسين ديدات}}; 1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was an [[Indian people |Indian]]-born [[South Africa|South African]] 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]].
 
Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deedat |first1=Ahmed |title=Was Jesus Crucified? |date=1980 |publisher=Adam Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7435-519-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfk5Ouh1VG0C&q=%22ahmed+deedat%22 |language=en}}</ref> He was awarded the [[King Faisal Foundation|King Faisal International Prize]] in 1986 for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.<ref name="dw" />