Ishak, Ishaq or Eshaq may refer to: *

Ishak (name) Ishak, Ishaq or Eshaq ( ; ar, إسحاق / ALA-LC: ''Isḥāq'') is a surname and masculine given name, the Arabic form of Isaac. Ishak (Isaac) was the son of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Sarah, patriarchs in the Bible and the Quran. The name Ishak mean ...

, list of people with this given name or surname *

Isaaq The Isaaq (also Isaq, Ishaak, Isaac) ( so, Reer Sheekh Isxaaq, ar, بني إسحاق, Banī Isḥāq) is a Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large and densely populated traditional territory. Per ...

, a Somali clan-family in the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

Ishaaq bin Ahmed Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed bin Muhammad bin al-Hussein al-Hashimi, more commonly known as Sheikh Ishaaq or Sheikh Isaaq (, ) was the semi-legendary Arab forefather of the Somali Isaaq clan-family in the Horn of Africa, whose traditional territory i ...

, the semi-legendary forefather and common ancestor of the

clan-family *

Atakapa The Atakapa Sturtevant, 659 or Atacapa were an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived along the Gulf of Mexico in what is now Texas and Louisiana. They included several distinct band ...

, a Native American people who call themselves the Ishak *

Ishak, Iran Ashbak ( fa, اشباك, also Romanized as Ashbāk and Eshbāk; also known as Eshak and Ishāk) is a village in Meyghan Rural District, in the Central District of Nehbandan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the I ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province *

Eshaqabad, Shahr-e Babak Eshaqabad ( fa, اسحق اباد, also Romanized as Esḩāqābād; also known as Esḩāq and Is-hāq) is a village in Jowzam Rural District, Dehaj District, Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic ...

, village in Kerman Province, Iran also known as Esḩāq or Is-hāq *

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