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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]]
== Media ==
*[[Baraka (film)|''Baraka'' (film)]], a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by [[Ron Fricke]]
*[[Baraka (novel)|''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]]''[http://www.barakarecords.com], an Oxford-based trance party
*[http://www.barakamusic.co.uk ''BARAKA''] World Music band based in the UK
*[http://www.barakastreaming.com] Baraka Streaming Technologies.
==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 Bracha|Har Braka]], a [[Jewish Settlement]] in the [[West Bank]] ([[Samaria]]), [[Palestinian territories]]
==People==
*[[Amiri Baraka]] (1934 - ), a U.S. writer.
*[[Al-Said_Barakah|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), a U.S. politician whose first name is derived from the [[Kiswahili]] word, ''baraka'' meaning blessed.
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