Ismat/Esmat ( or ) is a given name meaning ''purity'', ''chastity'' or ''modesty'' and in classical Arabic ''infallibility'', ''immaculate'', ''impeccability'', ''faultlessness''. Transliteration variants include ''Esmat'' and ''Asmat''.

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Ismat Chughtai Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1911 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-cla ...

(1915–1991), Indian Urdu writer *

Esmat Dowlatshahi Esmat ol-Molouk Dowlatshahi (; 1905 – 25 July 1995) was an Iranian royal and the fourth and last wife of Reza Shah. Early life Dowlatshahi was born in 1905. She was a member of the Qajar dynasty. Her father was Gholam Ali Mirza "Mojalal Dowleh ...

(1904–1995), Iranian aristocrat and the fourth and last spouse of Reza Shah * Ismat Jahan (born 1960),

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

i diplomat *

Esmat Mansour Essmat Mansour El Sayed (, born November 20, 1986) is an Egyptian Powerlifting, weightlifter who competed in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 Weightlifting World Championships, 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and reached the 6th spot wit ...

(born 1986), Egyptian weightlifter *

Ismat Ara Nishi Ismat Ara Nishi () is a Bangladeshi national women Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzh ...

, Bangladeshi Kabaddi player *Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya or Aisha Taymur (1840–1902), Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist *

Ismat Zaidi Ismat Zaidi is a Pakistani actress who has appeared in a variety of television dramas. She mostly plays motherly roles on television. Career Her character of an elderly lady worried about the marital lives of her younger sister and niece i ...

, Pakistani actress

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* Ismat Abasov (born 1954), Azerbaijani politician * Ismat Abdel-Rahman, Sudanese Army officer *

Ismat Beg Ismat Beg (Urdu: عصمت بیگ; born January 1951) is a Pakistani mathematician and academic. He serves as Distinguished National Professor at the Lahore School of Economics and has held faculty positions at universities in Pakistan and abroa ...

, (born 1951), Pakistani mathematician *

Ismat Gayibov Ismat Ismayil oglu Gayibov () (1942–1991) was the Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan. He was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaija ...

(1942–1991), Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan * Ismat T. Kittani (1929–2001), Iraqi politician * Esmat Shanwary (born 1993), Afghan-Dutch footballer

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

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Riad Ismat Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat () (11 July 1947 – 13 May 2020) was a Syrian writer, critic and theatre director. He served as Minister of Culture of Syria from 3 October 2010 to 23 June 2012. Early life, education and career Ismat studied Engli ...

(1947–2020), Syrian dramatist and playwright

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