Baraka

Baraka may refer to:

• baraka, also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
• baraka, also barakah, in Arabic, Islam and Arab-influenced languages such as Swahili, Urdu, Persian, Turkish, meaning spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God; or in a Sufi context, "breath of life"
• Baraka Bashad, meaning "may the blessings be" or just "blessings be" originally a Sufi expression and also used in Eckankar
• Baraka, means 'Blessing' a spiritual power believed to be possessed by certain persons, objects, tombs, in Arabic, Swahili, Urdu, Persian and Turkish
  • "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, a Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene and Turkish word for "shack"
  • barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves

Media

• BARAKA World Music band based in UK - http://www.barakamusic.co.uk
• Baraka World Music Series, an international World music festival with varying dates and venues. Established in Orlando in 2008, BWMS aims to bring cultures together by introducing performers from different parts of the world to Central Florida.
• 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 Kirtan A Kirtan Musical Healing group based in US - http://www.barakakirtan.com

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 Jewish Settlement in the West Bank, Palestinian territories
• Baraka Kutina, an alternative youth music club in Kutina, Croatia

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

See also

• Barack Obama (sometimes, Baraka Obama), 44th President of the United States, whose first name is derived from the Arabic language influenced Swahili word baraka, meaning "blessed" in Arabic language.

• Barack (given name)

External links

• Baraka Bashad