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Gulfport

غولفبورت

City (Wikidata Q490587).

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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
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islam.museum contributors. “Gulfport”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/gulfport/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

American former basketball player, born in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1969 as Christopher Wayne Jackson. He converted to Islam early in his career and changed his name in 1993, played nine seasons in the NBA, and drew worldwide attention in 1996 for refusing to stand for the United States national anthem in protest.