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.

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.

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

Middle name

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

See also

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