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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/ k ə ˈ r iː m æ b ˈ d uː l dʒ ə ˈ b ɑːr / kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ æ l ˈ s ɪ n d ər / al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is an American former basketball player.
Abdul Jabbar was born in 1911 to a Mandaean priestly family in the town of Qal'at Saleh, Qal'at Saleh District, Maysan Province (formerly Al-Amaarah) in southeastern Iraq. [4] His father was Ganzibra Abdullah, son of Ganzibra Sam [5]: 44 (d. 1981 in Baghdad; also known as Abdallah bar Sam; Mandaean baptismal name: Adam Zihrun bar Sam).
Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. [1]
Abdul Jabbar (footballer) (1945 – March 2014), Pakistani footballer; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b. 1947), American basketball player; Abdul Jabbar (Tamil Nadu cricketer) (1952), Indian Tamil Nadu cricketer; Abdul-Jabar Hashim Hanoon (1970), Iraqi footballer who played defender; Karim Abdul-Jabbar, a previous name of Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (1974 ...
Abdul Jabbar (11 October 1919 – 21 February 1952) was a protester who was killed during the Bengali language movement in 1952 that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.
There may be no figure in Lakers history more misunderstood than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And "Winning Time" tries to correct, or at least complicate, the record.. In Episode 5 of "Binge Sesh," hosts ...
Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Bantam Books, 1983) is a best-selling book [1] by basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.Written with former Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler, it covers Abdul-Jabbar's career, his conversion to Islam, his social growth, and his feelings about American racial politics. [2]
Sheikh Abdul Jabbar was an Indian politician and freedom fighter from Jammu and Kashmir. He held various positions in his political career, including serving as a Cabinet Minister, MLA, and MLC. In 1984, Sheikh Abdul Jabbar left the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference to join the rebel faction led by Ghulam Mohammad Shah. During Shah's tenure ...