Ismat

This article is about the Arabic given name. For the private higher education establishment located in Portimão, Algarve region, Portugal, known as ISMAT, see Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes.

Ismat/Esmat (Arabic: عصمت / اسمت^[1] or عصمة^[2]) is a 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

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

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