Badreddin al-Houthi (; 3 November 1926 – 25 November 2010; also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi) was a Yemeni politician and Zaidi

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scholar. He was the father of the founder of the

Houthi movement The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydism, Zaydi Shia Islamism, Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadersh ...

Hussein al-Houthi Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi (; 20 August 1959 – 10 September 2004) was a Yemeni politician and Zaidi religious leader who was the founder of the Houthi movement. A former member of the Yemeni parliament for the Party of Truth between 1993 a ...

, and the father of the organization's current leader,

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi (born 22 May 1979) is a Yemeni politician and religious leader who is the second leader of the Houthis (Ansar Allah), an organization principally made up of Zaydi Shia Muslims, since 2004. His brothers, Yahi ...

Life

He was born in Dahyan,

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. He studied

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under Majd al-Din al-Muayyadi, a prominent

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scholar appointed as

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of the Hejaz by

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. He is one of the founders of the Party of Truth in Yemen and the spiritual leader of the

. Upon the death of his son Hussein in 2004, he briefly took over the leadership of the

. In 2010 he died at the age of 84 as a result of complications relating to

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References

Yemeni politicians Zaidiyyah scholars Houthi members 1926 births 2010 deaths Deaths from asthma People from Saada Governorate Houthi family {{Yemen-politician-stub