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Badreddin al-Houthi بدرالدين الحوثي | |
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| Born | 3 November 1926 Dahyan, Saada Governorate |
| Died | 25 November 2010 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Yemeni |
| Political party | Party of Truth (Yemen) |
| Children | Hussein, Abdul-Malik, Yahia, Muhammad, Ibrahim,[1] Abdulkhalik,[2] Abdul-Karim[3][4][5][6] |
| Family | al-Houthi |
Badreddin al-Houthi (Arabic: بدرالدين الحوثي; 3 November 1926 – 25 November 2010) also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi was a Yemeni politician and scholar of Zaidi Islam.[7]
He was born in Dahyan, Saada. 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. Upon the death of Hussein in 2004, he briefly took over the leadership of the Houthi movement.[8][9]
In 2010 he died at the age of 84 as a result of complications relating to asthma.[10]