Ahmed Deedat was a Muslim thinker, author, and orator on comparative religion from South Africa. He was born in India in 1918 and moved to South Africa in 1927.
He taught himself English and studied various religions, especially Christianity and Islam and became famous for his public debates with Christian missionaries and evangelists, as well as his books and lectures on Islam and the Bible.
He founded the Islamic Propagation Centre International in Durban, South Africa, to train Muslims in spreading the message of Islam.
Ahmed passed away in 2005 after suffering a stroke