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 (born 1953), human rights activist and 2016 candidate for Vice President of the United States
 * Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer
 * Ras J. Baraka (born 1970), American politician and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey
 * Al-Said Barakah (1260–1280), Mamluk Sultan
 * Barack Obama, Sr. (1934–1982), born Baraka Obama, Kenyan father of U.S. President Barack Obama
 * Baraka bint Thaʿlaba, known as Umm Ayman, female companion of Muhammad

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

 * Al-Barakah (ISIL administrative district), a self-proclaimed district and former province
 * Baraka (musical group), an ethno-jazz collective, from Riga, Latvia
 * Barakah nuclear power plant, in the United Arab Emirates
 * barakaši, a name the party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union gave to themselves