Ismat

Ismat/Esmat (عصمت / اسمت or عصمة ) 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