About the archive
Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
Ahmed Deedat was born on 1 July 1918 in Tadkeshwar, India, and grew up in South Africa. In 1957 he co-founded the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) in Durban.
Over four decades he lectured across the world on Islam and Christianity and held public debates with leading Christian evangelists, among them Jimmy Swaggart, Anis Shorrosh, Floyd E. Clark and Stanley Sjöberg. In 1986 he received the King Faisal International Prize for service to Islam.
He died on 8 August 2005 in Verulam, South Africa.
What the archive contains
- 251 lectures and debates - the IPCI original recordings, recordings from other sources, and Arabic subtitled and dubbed versions.
- 49 short clips with Arabic subtitles.
- 56 books and booklets in Arabic and English.
- 17 debates and major events, each with its full sequence of recordings.
Sources
Each recording names its original source - the IPCI channel, the TruthWay TV (TWT) archive, or the translator's channel for Arabic versions. Video files are served from the Internet Archive, where every item can also be downloaded. Dates are only given when they come from the recording itself or another reliable source.
