:''Ittihad is separate and distinct from Union Party''. The Ittihad Party or Union Party ("Ettihad Party", ar, حزب الاتحاد, ''Hizb al-Ittihad'') was a right-wing political party active in the

Kingdom of Egypt The Kingdom of Egypt ( ar, المملكة المصرية, Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, The Egyptian Kingdom) was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign, from the United Kingdom's recog ...

. The party was founded by a group of ''

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s'' with

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and islamist ideas that legitimized the Sir

Lee Stack Major-General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, (15 May 1868 – 20 November 1924) was a British Army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On 19 November 1924, he was shot by assassins while driving through Cairo, and d ...

's assassination in 1924. This group was composed also by young future political leaders like

Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr ( ar, محمد حامد أبو النصر; 25 March 1913 – 20 January 1996) was the fourth General Guide (Murshid al-'am) of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. A controversial choice to lead the group after the 1986 de ...

and

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. The ideological values were entrencheds in the Egyptian "traditional" culture. The party was gather in the

Al-Azhar Mosque Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...

. The Ittihad was financially supported by King

Fuad I Fuad I ( ar, فؤاد الأول ''Fu’ād al-Awwal''; tr, I. Fuad or ; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sulta ...

and British agents, that trusted that the Ittihad would have destabilized the activities of the left-wing radicals. Nevertheless, the Ittihad failed in his goal of built a conservative party, due to his religious views. Its platform was composed mainly by teachers, farmers,

s and

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s. The party program was: *Dignified positions of the religious authorities *Better resources for the Egyptian monarchy *Monopoly over the distribution of public and private endowments *Creation of the

Awqaf A waqf ( ar, وَقْف; ), also known as hubous () or '' mortmain'' property is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitab ...

*Strong

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and

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* Anti-Western policies The Ittihad was also tutelaged by

Hassan al-Banna Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna ( ar, حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna ( ar, حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, b ...

Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...

. After this alliance, the Ittihad became mostly active against

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, and refused the

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, reputed as anarchy, supported a strong

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state. Despite his low electoral results, he party took over the governments of Egypt in 1930s thanks the support of

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s present in the

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. The party hasn't been a long life and in 1936 was dissolved. Its member adhered mainly to

Wafd Party The Wafd Party (; ar, حزب الوفد, ''Ḥizb al-Wafd'') was a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt. It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period from the end of World War I through the 1930s ...

and

Electoral results

House of Representatives elections

References

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