Ishak (name)
Ishak, Ishaq, Isak, Isaque, Isaac, Isaak, Isaach or Eshaq is a masculine given name, the Arabic form of Isaac. Ishak was the son of Ibrahim and Sarah, patriarchs in the Bible and the Quran. The name Ishak means ‘One who laughs’ because Sarah laughed when the angel told them that they would have a child.
People with this given name
- Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Sharif Islamic scholar and was the forefather and common ancestor of the Isaaq tribe in the Horn of Africa
- İshak Alaton, Turkish businessman
- Ishak Assia, Swedish/Syriac media businessman
- Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer
- Ishaq Bux, Indian actor
- Ishaq Dar, Pakistani politician
- Ishaq Darwish, Palestinian politician
- Ishak Efendi, Ottoman engineer and translator
- Ishak Haleva, Turkish Chief Rabbi
- Eshaq Jahangiri, Iranian politician
- Ishak Ali Moussa, Algerian footballer
- Ishak Haji Muhammad, Malaysian writer
- Ishaq Shahryar, Afghan politician
- Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi, was the Abbasid governor and official.
- Ishaq al-Mawsili, was an Arab musician of Persian origin
- Ishaq ibn al-Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Hashimi, Abbasid governor of Yemen.
- Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, was an early Islamic scholar.
- Ishaq Ibn Imran, was an Arab physician during Abbasid era.
- Ishaq Al-Ruhawi 9th-century Arab physician and the author of the medical ethics book in Arabic medicine.
- Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, was the chief of security in Baghdad during the Abbasid era.
- Ishaq ibn Kundaj, Abbasid general and governor
- Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir, was an Abbasid prince and father of caliph Al-Qadir
People with this surname
;Early Islamic era- Ibn Abi Ishaq, first grammarian of the Arabic language
- Ibn Ishaq, Arab Muslim historian who wrote a biography of Muhammad
- Muhammad ibn Ishaq, was the chief of security in Baghdad during Abbasid era.
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq, was Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators.
- Baba Ishak, 13th century Turkish rebel and false Prophet.
- Awang Faroek Ishak, Indonesian politician, eleventh governor of East Kalimantan
- Aziz Ishak, Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist
- Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer
- Mustapha Ishak Boushaki, Algerian cosmologist
- Mohammad Ishaq, Pakistani cricketer
- Samar Ishaq, Pakistani footballer
- Sara Ishaq, a Scottish-Yemeni film maker
- Shahril Ishak, Singaporean footballer
- Yahya Al-e Eshaq, Iranian politician
- Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician
- Zunera Ishaq, Canadian woman in niqab controversy