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Anṣār Allāh

LC control no.no2015054905
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAnṣār Allāh
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Variant(s)Supporters of God
Ḥūthīyūn
Houthis
Tanẓīm Anṣār Allāh
انصار الله
حوثيون
تنظيم انصار الله
See alsoPredecessor: Shabāb al-Muʼmin
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Associated countryYemen (Republic)
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inTaṣawwur Ḥūthī bi-shaʼn sayṭarat al-qūwāt al-Ḥūthīyah ʻalá Ṣanʻāʼ 2014, 2015: page 12, etc. (Tanẓīm Anṣār Allāh, known more popularly as al-Ḥūthīyūn ; the original group was named as Ḥarakat al-Shabāb al-Muʼmin; spiritual leaders Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥūthī and his son Ḥusayn al-Ḥūthī who changed its name to become Anṣār Allāh and changed it to be more a political party; they are a Zaidi group operating in Yemen; current political leader: ʻAbd al-Malak Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥūthī)
Anṣār Allāh WWW site, April 24, 2015: ( Anṣār Allāh = انصار الله; the founder: Ḥusayn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥūthī)
   <http://www.ansarallah.net/alsayed/leader-husain>
Wikipedia WWW site, April 25, 2015: (Houthis; Ansar Allah (anṣār allāh انصار الله "Supporters of God"), known more popularly as the Houthis (Arabic: الحوثيون‎ al-Ḥūthiyyūn), are a Zaidi group operating in Yemen. The Houthi movement began as the Believing Youth (BY); takes its name from Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, who launched an insurgency in 2004 and was reportedly killed by Yemeni army forces that September. Led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the group succeeded in a coup d'état in 2014-15 and, as of April 2015)
Associated languageara