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

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. In Judaism, a berakhah or bracha ( Hebrew: ברכה; plural ברכות berakhot; related to the word " Barakah ( Arabic: بركة: also Baraka) is an Arabic term meaning Blessing, particularly spiritual gifts or protection Luck (also called fortunity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. See also Albert Kalonji. Nigella sativa is an annual Flowering plant, native to southwest Asia. A shack is a type of small House that is in disrepair The word may derive from the Nahuatl (Aztec word xacalli or "adobe house" by way of The Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica HDZ is the main Center-right Political party in Croatia. Barracks are living quarters for personnel on a Military post Baraka ( 1992) is a Todd-AO ( 70 mm) non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi Ron Fricke is an American Film director and Cinematographer, considered to be a master of time-lapse photography Baraka or the Lives Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith (commonly referred to simply as Baraka Lives) is a Novel written by Canadian Baraka is a Fictional character in the Mortal Kombat Fighting game series The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 Documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (both of Miroslav Krleža (mîroslaʋ křleʒa July 7, 1893 - December 29, 1981) was a leading Croatian writer and a figure in cultural life STS9 ( Sound Tribe Sector 9) is an Instrumental band who are known for their live performances

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. Libreville (population 578156 January 1, 2005) is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Barakaldo (not to be confused with the Cuban and Guinean cities called Baracaldo) is an industrial river-port municipality in the Basque Country in Spain
• Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
• Har Braka, a village in Samaria, Israel

People

• Amiri Baraka (1934 - ), a U. The Baraka School was a small education program that took at-risk 12-year-old boys from the Baltimore public school system to the Kenyan outback The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 Documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (both of Har Brakha (הַר בְּרָכָה lit Mount Blessing is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 Amiri Baraka (born October 7 1934 is an American Writer of Poetry, Drama, essays and Music criticism. 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, a U. Al-Said Barakah (1260 Cairo – 1280 Karak (original name Muhammed Barakah Qan (محمد بركة قان royal name al-Malik al-Said Nasir al-Din Barakah (Arabic Baibars, or al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari ( Arabic ar الملك‭ ‬الظاهر‭ ‬ركن‭ ‬الدين‭ ‬بيبرس‭ ‬البندقداري Sultan (سلطان is an Islamic title with several historical meanings King Saud King Faisal Mohammed King Khaled Nasr Saad The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA ( المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) or Suudi The word antediluvian (synPrediluvian ( Latin for "before the deluge") is used to describe a period of time that preceded the Great Flood Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a Pater familias over an extended family Jared is a proper name that is very common first name (in various Western countries of Biblical derivation etymologically from the Hebrew Jubilee The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלים sometimes called the Lesser Genesis ( Leptogenesis) is an ancient Jewish religious work considered Timur also written Emir Timur or Amir Temur ( Chagatai: تیمور - Tēmōr " Iron " (1336 – 19 February 1405 among S. politician whose first name is derived from the Kiswahili word, baraka meaning blessed. Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself is the First language of the Swahili people (Waswahili who inhabit several large stretches

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