Badreddin al-Houthi

Badreddin al-Houthi (بدرالدين الحوثي; 3 November 1926 – 25 November 2010; also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi) was a Yemeni politician and Zaidi Shia scholar. He was the father of the founder of the Houthi movement, Hussein al-Houthi, and the father of the organization's current leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.

Life
He was born in Dahyan, Saada. He studied Zaydism under Majd al-Din al-Muayyadi, a prominent Saudi scholar appointed as Grand Mufti of the Hejaz by Faisal of Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founders of the Party of Truth in Yemen and the spiritual leader of the Houthi movement. Upon the death of his son Hussein in 2004, he briefly took over the leadership of the Houthi movement.

In 2010 he died at the age of 84 as a result of complications relating to asthma.