Renowned scholar Ahmed Deedat dies
Sheikh Deedat was born on July 1, 1918, in Surat, India. His family migrated to South Africa in 1927. He established the first Islamic religious institution in South Africa to train preachers at the Assalaam Institute in Braemar. He is also the founder of world’s largest Islamic Dawah organization, the IPCI.
He published over 20 books and distributed millions of copies of pamphlets and literature the world over. Many of Sheikh Deedat’s publications have been translated into Russian, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, French, Amharic, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Indonesian, Zulu, Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian and other languages.
He delivered thousands of lectures all over the world and successfully encountered some of the biggest names in Christian evangelists in public debates.