Islam in Africa

Africa holds the largest Muslim population of any continent, some 550 million people or roughly 31 per cent of Muslims worldwide. Islam reached Egypt and the Maghreb in the 640s and spread over the following centuries through trade, scholarship and teaching.

Ahmad Husein Deedat (1918-2005) was a South African preacher and writer on comparative religion who founded the Islamic Propagation Centre International at Durban, held public inter-religious debates, and received the King Faisal Prize in Service to Islam in 1986.