Badreddin al-Houthi ( ar, بدرالدين الحوثي; 3 November 1926 – 25 November 2010) also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi was a Yemeni politician and scholar of
Zaidi Shia
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Islam
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Life
He was born in
Dahyan,
Saada
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. He is one of the founders of
Party of Truth in Yemen and the spiritual leader of
Ansar Allah movement. He is the father of
Abdul-Malik and
Hussein
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. Upon the death of Hussein in 2004, he briefly took over the leadership of the
Houthi movement
The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist, Islamist political and armed move ...
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In 2010 he died at the age of 84 as a result of complications relating to
asthma
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References
Yemeni politicians
Zaidiyyah scholars
Houthis
1926 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from asthma
People from Saada Governorate
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