Ittihad Party
political party in Egypt
Ittihad is separate and distinct from Union Party.
The Ittihad Party or Union Party ("Ettihad Party", Arabic: حزب الاتحاد, Hizb al-Ittihad) was an Islamist political party active in the Kingdom of Egypt.
The party was founded by a group of ulamas with royalist and Islamist ideas that legitimized the Sir Lee Stack's assassination in 1924. This group was composed also by young future political leaders like Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr and Aly Maher Pasha. The ideological values were entrenched in the Egyptian "traditional" culture. The party was gathering in the Al-Azhar Mosque.
The Ittihad was financially supported by King Fuad I and British agents, that trusted that the Ittihad would have destabilized the activities of the left-wing radicals. Nevertheless, the Ittihad failed in its goal of building a conservative party, due to its religious views. Its platform was composed mainly by teachers, farmers, ulamas and imams.
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
Strong social values and solidarity
Anti-Western policies
The Ittihad was also tutelaged by Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood.
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