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Enes Kanter Freedom

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أنس كانتر

Turkish-American basketball player and activist (born 1992) born in Zurich as Enes Kanter and raised in Turkey, who played eleven NBA seasons and, on becoming an American citizen on 29 November 2021, legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom; a practising Muslim.

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Roles
basketball player · activist
Region
Americas & Oceania
Identifiers
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Rahman Badawi

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    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1992

    Sources

    • Enes Kanter Freedom — English Wikipedia
    • أنس كانتر — Arabic Wikipedia
    • اینیس کانٹر فریڈم — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Enes Kanter Freedom — Wikidata
    • Enes Kanter Freedom — Religion Unplugged profile, 2022
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Enes Kanter Freedom”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/enes-kanter-freedom/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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