What is "ismail"

Ismail (, ) is an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael.

Ismail may refer to:

• Ishmael, the first son of Prophet Abraham
• Ishmael in Islam
• Ismail (name), people with the name
• Sultan Ismail (disambiguation), various rulers
• Ismael, Sar-e Pol, in Sangcharak District at Sar-e Pol Province of Afghanistan
• Russian torpedo boat Ismail, the escort to Russian battleship Potemkin and the first to join the latter's mutiny in 1905
• Shah Ismail I, first king of the Safavid dynasty

Ismail (; ; d. 1330) was a Muslim Iraqi mangonel expert who served in Kublai Khan’s army in the conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 1271, Kublai Khan dispatched envoys to obtain persons skilled in the management of mangonels from his kinsman Abaqa, the Ilkhan in Persia. The latter sent Al al-Din and Ismail, together with their families, by post route to Hangzhou, where they began by building large mangonels which they erected in front of the city gates. In 1273 he served at the Siege of Xiangyang. He surveyed the approaches, and planted a mangonel at the southeast corner. Its weight was 150 catties (over 200 lbs./440 kg) and when the machinery was discharged, the noise was said to shake heaven and earth. It broke down all before it, and pierced the ground to a depth of seven feet (2 m).

Yisimayin died in 1330 and was succeeded by his son Yakoob 亞古.