Nabeel Qureshi
Christian apologist and author
Nabeel Qureshi was a Pakistani-American Christian apologist and New York Times best-selling author. He told the story of his move from Islam to Christianity in Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.
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American Born 1983 in California, United States Died 2017
About Nabeel Qureshi
Nabeel Qureshi was born in 1983 and raised in a devout Ahmadi Muslim family. He became a Christian as a university student, after several years of debate with David Wood. He earned a medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School and a master's in religion at Duke University. In 2013 he joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries as an apologist, and he stayed with the organization until 2017. He spoke at more than 100 universities and took part in 18 public debates across North America, Europe and Asia. His first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, won Christian Book Awards in 2015 for Best New Author and Best Non-Fiction. He also wrote Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward and No God But One: Allah or Jesus. Qureshi was diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer in 2016. He died in September 2017 after a year of treatment.