Baraka
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Baraka can refer to several things:
- Baraka (or Barakah) is a term referring to a sense of divine presence, charisma, wisdom, and/or blessing transmitted from master to pupil. It can refer to "breath" (see Qi or prana), but is more often associated with a place or person.
- Baraka is a French term for luck.
- "Berkah" is the Indonesian word derived from Barakah. It means a great blessing or a great favourable gift (especially from Allah or God).
- Baraka is a type of "spiritual energy" believed to exist by a sect of Islam in Somalia.
- Baraka (Nigella sativa) seed is a spice that has purported health benefits. It is called Habbat-ul-Baraka (blessed seed) in Arabic.
Other languages
- Baraka is the Croatian and Bulgarian word for shack. The party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union refer to themselves as barakaši, derived from baraka.
Entertainment
- Baraka is a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The name is derived from the Sufi term described above.
- Baraka is a 1983 novel written by Canadian John Ralston Saul.
- Baraka is a character from the Mortal Kombat franchise.
- The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film.
- [Baraka] is an artist collective, based in Oxford UK primarily organising psychedelic trance parties.
- Baraka is a DJ who played psychedelic trance music. He was strongly associated with the well known London club night Return to the Source.
- Baraka is a grunge rock band formed in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Places
- Baraka is a barangay in the Norzagaray municipality, in the province of Bulacan, Philippines.
- Baraka was a site in Gabon where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842. It is now Libreville.
- Al-Baraka was a popular Moroccan restaurant in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid, Spain, where the terrorists responsible for the Madrid train bombings of 11 March 2004 were based.
- Baraka is a village in the eastern congolese province of Sud-Kivu on the Lake Tanganyika.
- Baraka is also the local nickname for Barakaldo (Vizcaya, Spain)
People
- Amiri Baraka (1934 - ), a U.S. writer.
- Baraka Khan (? - 1280, son of Baibars and briefly (1277 - 1279) a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria.
- Baraka al-Yamaniyah, wife of `Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd, first monarch of Saudi Arabia.
- Baraka was, according to the apocryphal book of Jubilees, the wife of the antediluvian patriarch Jared.
- Mersaid Baraka was a teacher to Timur, and was also placed in the mausoleum Gur-e Amir where Timur and several of his descendants are entombed.
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