Ismat

Ismat/Esmat (Arabic: عصمت / اسمت^[1] or عصمة^[2]) is a mainly male given name meaning purity, chastity or modesty and in classical Arabic infallibility, immaculate, impeccability, faultlessness. Transliteration variants include Esmat and Asmat.

Female given name[edit]

• Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991), Indian Urdu writer
• Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904–1995), Iranian aristocrat and the fourth and last spouse of Reza Shah
• Ismat Jahan (born 1960), Bangladeshi diplomat
• Esmat Mansour (born 1986), Egyptian weightlifter
• Ismat Ara Nishi, Bangladeshi Kabaddi player
• Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya or Aisha Taymur (1840–1902), Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist
• Ismat Zaidi, Pakistani actress
• Ismat Ghoneim اسمت غنيم , Egyptian Professor of Middle Age History.
• Ismat Elshazly اسمت الشاذلي (born 1980), Egyptian nutritionist

Male given name[edit]

• Ismat Abasov (born 1954), Azerbaijani politician
• Ismat Abdel-Rahman, Sudanese Army officer
• Ismat Beg, (born 1951), Pakistani mathematician
• Ismat Gayibov (1942–1991), Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan
• Ismat T. Kittani (1929–2001), Iraqi politician
• Esmat Shanwary (born 1993), Afghan-Dutch footballer
• Ismat Farahat اسمت فرحات, Egyptian Actor.

Middle name[edit]

• Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (1924–2013), Egyptian diplomat

Surname[edit]

• Riad Ismat (1947–2020), Syrian dramatist and playwright

See also[edit]

• Ismet, Turkish spelling of the same name
• Ismat ad-Din (disambiguation)
• Ismatullah

References[edit]

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