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{{short description|Yemeni politician and tribe leader}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = File:Al-Ahmar 1965 Crop.jpg
| caption = Abdullah al-Ahmar
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1933
| birth_place =
| death_date = 29 December 2007
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| office1 = [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Yemen|President]] of the [[House of Representatives (Yemen)|House of Representatives of Yemen]]
| term_start1 = 15 June 1993
| term_end1 = 29 December 2007
| predecessor1 = [[Yasin Said Numan]]
| successor1 = [[Yahya Ali al-Raee]]
| office2 = [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Yemen|President]] of the North Yemen legislature
| term_start2 = 1969
| term_end2 = 1975
| predecessor2 = New office
| successor2 = [[Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi]]
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Sheikh '''Abdullah bin Husayn bin Nasser al-Ahmar''' ({{lang-ar|عبد الله بن حسين الأحمر&lrm;}}) (1933 – 29 December 2007) was a politician and tribe leader of [[Yemen]]. He was the [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Yemen|Speaker]] of the [[House of Representatives (Yemen)]] from 1993 to 2007<ref name="yemenparliament">[http://yemenparliament.gov.ye/Details?Post=40 Former Presidencies]</ref> and also was the [[Sheikh]] of the [[Hashid]] tribal federation and the [[Al-Islah (Yemen)|Al-Islah]] party.

He inherited the position of [[Sheikh]] of the [[Hashid]] tribal federation from his father, Husayn Bin Nasser al-Ahmar, who was executed by Imam [[Ahmad bin Yahya]]. As a result, during the [[North Yemen Civil War]] Abdullah al-Ahmar sided with the Republicans against the Royalists and was appointed governor of [[Hajjah Governorate|Hajjah]], but he refused to join the [[Egypt]]ian-backed government of [[Abdullah as-Sallal]]. After Egypt withdrew from [[Yemen]], he helped topple the Sallal government and his tribes provided crucial support to the new regime of [[Abdul Rahman al-Iryani]] against the royalists.

In 1970, the civil war ended with the abolition of the monarchy and al-Ahmar became first the president of new National Council 1969–1971, and then the president of Shura Council 1971–1975.<ref name="yemenparliament" />
[[File:Abdullah Al-Ahmar and Abdullah Ibn Saud.jpg|thumb|280px|right|Patriarch of Hashid tribal confederation with then Prince Mohammad bin Ahmad Al-Sudairy of Saudi Arabia in 1973]]
When Colonel [[Ibrahim al-Hamdi]] seized power in 1974, he tried to limit the representation of the tribal leaders, which led to an open rebellion by the Hashid tribes. After the assassination of Hamdi in 1977, [[Saudi Arabia]] helped bring about a reconciliation between the tribes and the new government in 1978, first under [[Ahmad al-Ghashmi]] and then under [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]. [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] who also belongs to the Hashid tribal confederation. Abdullah Al-Ahmar was appointed to the Constituent People's Assembly.

Although he opposed the government of [[South Yemen]], he supported the 1990 unification of North and South Yemen and formed the [[Yemeni Congregation for Reform|Islah Party]], which represents tribal as well as Islamic interests. The Islah Party won 62 seats out of 301 in the parliamentary elections of 1993, in which it ran in coalition with President Saleh's People General Congress (PGC), and al-Ahmar was elected speaker of parliament. In 1997, the party won 56 seats and al-Ahmar was re-elected speaker of parliament. Though his party won only 45 seats in the 2003 elections and was no longer in coalition with the PGC (which won a majority of 225 seats), al-Ahmar was re-elected speaker of parliament; he was again re-elected to that post in 2007.

Al-Ahmar died of cancer on 29 December 2007, aged 74, at the [[King Faisal Specialist Hospital]] in [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>[http://www.sabanews.net/en/news144021.htm "Parliament speaker passes away"], Saba Net, 29 December 2007.</ref><ref name=Mourning>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7164667.stm "Mourning begins for Yemen speaker"], BBC News, 29 December 2007.</ref> Three days of mourning were declared for al-Ahmar, who was considered Yemen's second most powerful person.<ref name=Mourning/>

His son [[Sadiq al-Ahmar]] succeeded him in the positions of the [[Sheikh]] of the [[Hashid]] tribal federation and the [[Al-Islah (Yemen)|Al-Islah]] tribal confederacy, and remains in those positions intact.

He and [[Ahmar (disambiguation)#Yemeni family|his family]], like many north Yemenis, are "[[Zaydi]] by parentage and [[Sunni]] by denominational conversion via partisan affiliation with Islah."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Stacey Philbrick Yadav|author2=Sheila Carapico|title=The Breakdown of the GCC Initiative|url=http://www.merip.org/mer/mer273/breakdown-gcc-initiative|website=[[Middle East Research and Information Project]]|accessdate=4 April 2015|location=MER273: Yemen's Times of Turmoil|date=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331235721/http://merip.org/mer/mer273/breakdown-gcc-initiative|archive-date=31 March 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20130210021005/http://www.yementimes.com/DefaultDET.aspx?i=1117&p=opinion&a=2 Late Sheikh Al-Ahmar: Man of national compromise], Hatem Ali, ''[[Yemen Times]]'', 3 January 2008

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[[Category:Converts to Sunni Islam from Shia Islam]]
[[Category:Speakers of North Yemen legislature]]

Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar - Revision history

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