Baraka

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

• 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

• Ajamu Baraka, human rights activist and 2016 candidate for Vice President of the United States
• Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer
• Ras J. Baraka (1970–present), American politician and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey
• Al-Said Barakah (1260–1280), Mamluk Sultan
• Barack Obama, Sr. (1934–1982), born Baraka Obama, father of U.S. President Barack Obama

Media

• 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

• 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

• Barack (disambiguation)