Baraka

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Baraka may refer to:

• baraka, also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
• baraka, also barakah, in Islam and Arab-influenced languages, meaning spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God
  • "Baraka", a rarely used French slang term for luck, derived from the Arabic word
  • Baraka, aka Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits
• Baraka, the Serbian and Bulgarian word for "shack"
  • barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves
• Baraka, the Turkish word for "barracks"
• Baraka, means 'Blessing' in Kiswahili

Contents 1 Media 2 Places 3 People 4 See also

[edit] Media

• Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke
• Baraka (novel) is a 1983 novel written by Canadian John Ralston Saul
• Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character
• The Boys of Baraka, a 2005 documentary film
• Baraka 5b, a novel by Croatian Miroslav Krleža
• Baraka (song) Written and performed by Sound Tribe Sector 9
• Baraka Foundation (band)
• Baraka Records[1], an Oxford-based trance party
• BARAKA World Music band based in the UK
• [2] Baraka Streaming Technologies.

[edit] Places

• Baraka, DRC, a village in the eastern Congolese province of Sud-Kivu on Lake Tanganyika.
• Baraka, Gabon, a site where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842 on what is now Libreville
• Baraka, Philippines, a barangay in the Norzagaray municipality, in the province of Bulacan
• "Baraka", the local nickname for Barakaldo, Spain
• Baraka College, a college for sustainable agriculture and rural development in Kenya
• Baraka, Kenya, a town in Kenya.
• Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
• Har Braka, a village in Samaria, Israel

[edit] People

• Amiri Baraka (1934 - ), a U.S. writer.
• Barakah Khan (1260 - 1280, son of Baibars and briefly a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria
• Baraka al-Yamaniyah, wife of `Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd, first monarch of Saudi Arabia
• Baraka, the wife of the antediluvian patriarch Jared, according to the apocryphal book of Jubilees
• Mir Sayyid Baraka, a teacher to 14th century warlord Timur

[edit] See also

• Barack Obama, a U.S. politician whose first name is derived from the Kiswahili word, baraka meaning blessed.