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Houthis fighters in Yemen, August 2009. There is a difference between the al-Houthi family [113]: 102 and the Houthi movement. The movement was called by their opponents and foreign media "Houthis". The name came from the surname of the early leader of the movement, Hussein al-Houthi, who died in 2004. [149]
Al-Houthi was born in Saada Governorate, Yemen Arab Republic, into the Houthi tribe on 22 May 1979. [2] [3] He is a Zaydi Shia Muslim.His father, Badreddin al-Houthi, was a religious scholar of Yemen's minority Zaydi sect. Abdul-Malik is the youngest among his eight brothers. [4]
In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in far north Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen but whose northern heartland had became ...
At the time of Al-Houthi's birth, that part of Yemen formed the core of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen). His father, Badreddin al-Houthi, was a prominent Zaydi cleric who briefly took control of the Houthi movement after his son's death. [1] According to a disciple, Hussein al-Houthi lived part of his life with his family, including his ...
The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional ...
Yemen's Houthis have joined the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, declaring on Oct. 31 they had fired drones and missiles at ...
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict. Oxford University Press. Caton, S. C. (2005). Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation. Hill and Wang. Clark, V. (2010). Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes. Yale University Press. Dresch, P. (2001). A History of Modern Yemen. Cambridge University Press.
In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in far north Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen but whose northern heartland had became ...