Baraka
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Baraka or Barakah may refer to:
- Berakhah or Baraka, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
- Barakah or Baraka, in Islam, the beneficent force from God that flows through the physical and spiritual spheres
- Baraka, full ḥabbat al-barakah, a.k.a. Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits
Places
[edit]- Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town 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 School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
- Baraka, the local nickname for Barakaldo, Spain
- Baraka River, Eritrea and Sudan
- Har Brakha, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestinian territories
- Barakeh, Hama, Syria
People
[edit]- Ajamu Baraka (born 1953), human rights activist and 2016 candidate for Vice President of the United States
- Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer
- Ras J. Baraka (born 1970), American politician and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey
- Al-Said Barakah (1260–1280), Mamluk Sultan
- Barack Obama, Sr. (1934–1982), born Baraka Obama, Kenyan father of U.S. President Barack Obama
- Baraka bint Thaʿlaba, known as Umm Ayman, female disciple (Sahaba) of Muhammad
Media
[edit]- Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film by Ron Fricke
- Baraka (novel), a 1983 novel by John Ralston Saul
- Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat series
- Baraka (album), a 1997 album by DKV Trio
- Barakah (album), a 2016 album by Sami Yusuf
Other
[edit]- Al-Barakah (ISIL administrative district), a self-proclaimed district and former province
- Baraka (musical group), an ethno-jazz collective, from Riga, Latvia
- Barakah nuclear power plant, in the United Arab Emirates
- barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves
See also
[edit]- Al Baraka (disambiguation)
- Barack (disambiguation)
- Barak (disambiguation)
- Barka (disambiguation)
- Barakat (disambiguation)
- Barkha (disambiguation)
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