Ismat Explained

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

Female given name

• 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

• 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

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

Surname

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

See also

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

References

1. Book: A Dictionary of Muslim Names. S. A. Rahman. Goodword Books. New Delhi. 2001.
2. Book: A Dictionary of Muslim Names. Salahuddin Ahmed. Hurst & Company. London. 1999.