Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi (
Arabic: حسين بدر الدين الحوثي; 1956 – 10 September 2004), also spelled
Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi, was a
Zaidi religious leader and former member of the
Yemeni parliament for the Al-Haqq Islamic party between 1993 and 1997. He was instrumental in the
Houthi insurgency against the
Yemeni government, which began in 2004. al-Houthi, who was a one-time rising political aspirant in Yemen, had wide religious and tribal backing in northern Yemen's mountainous regions. The
Houthi movement took his name after his death in 2004.