Muslim Brothers |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
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| جمعية الارشاد الاسلامي | Islamic Guidance Society | 1940s & 1950s | Muslim Brotherhood | |
| جمعية الاصلاح الاجتماعي | Social Reform Society | early 1960s to the invasion | Muslim Brotherhood. Successor to the Islamic Guidance Society. | |
| الحركة الدستورية الاسلامية | Islamic Constitutional Movement | from 1991 - | Muslim Brotherhood. Successor to the Social Reform Society. | |
Salafis |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| جمعية إحياء التراث الإسلامي | Society for the Preservation of Islamic Heritage | from 1981 to the invasion | Salafis | |
| التجمع الاسلامي السلفي | Salafis, Traditional Salafis | 1991 |
Salafis; from 1996, Traditional Salafis
التجمع الاسلامي الشعبي | |
| الحركة السلفية | Scientific Salafi Movement | 1994 - |
Scientific Salafis الحركة السلفية العلمية | |
| حزب الامة | Hizb al-Umma | 2004- | Salafi political party founded in Sept. 2004. Decided to boycott the 2006 elections, on the grounds that they were held under the 25 district system. Three of the most important founders of the party then quit the party and returned to the al-Haraka al-Salafiya (the Scientific Salafis). | حاكم المطيري؛ حسين السعيدي |
Shi'i Islamists |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| الشباب الوطني الدستوري | 1975 | Shi'i liberals | خالد خلف حسين التيلجى | |
| تجمع العدالة و السلام | Shirazi Group | from the 1970s |
Shi'i Islamists, followers of Ayatollah Shirazi. Formed a group under the current name on 29 December 2004, at a meeting attended by 110, including 30 women
(al-Qabas 30 December 2004). For more on the followers of Ayatollah Shirazi in Kuwait, see pps. 17-18 in: فلاح عبدالله المديرس, الحركة الشيعية في الكويت (الكويت: دار قرطاس, 1999 | |
| تجمع الصداقة و السلام | Tajammu al-Sadaqa wa al-Salam | Mentioned in 2009 elections; a member was said to be close to the Shirazi group. (Al-Qabas 29 April 2009, p. 15) | ||
| الائتلاف الاسلامي الوطني | 1992 elections; still active in 2005 | Shi'i Islamist group | ||
| التحالف الاسلامي الوطني | National Islamic Alliance | 1996- |
Shi'i Islamists. The group is sometimes described in some Kuwaiti newspapers as the Kuwait branch of Hizballah, though its members strongly disagree.
Elsewhere described as followers of the ideas of Imam Khomeini (al-Hayat 29 June 2006).
Founding date given as 1996 (al-Qabas 17 July 2007) | عدنان سيد عبدالصمد احمد سيد زاهد |
| التجمع الوطني الاسلامي | National Islamic Association |
Apparently the same as the الجمعية الثقافية A continuation of the الائتلاف الاسلامي الوطني ? | ||
| الجمعية الثقافية الاجتماعية | Jama'iya al-Thiqafa al-Ijtimaiya |
Apparently the same as التجمع الوطني الاسلامي
Al-Qabas says that the group was an early effort to unite Kuwaiti Shi'a, and was founded in 1963 (al-Qabas 2 May 2009, p. 18) | ||
| تجمع الميثاق | Tajammu al-Mithaq | -2009- | Yusuf Zalzalah's group, active in 2009 | |
| جماعة الرسالة الانسانية (الحساوية) | Jama'a al-Risala al-Insaniya | -2006- | A Shi'i group in the first district in 2009 | |
Left / Liberals |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| حركة القومييى العرب | Arab Nationalist Movement | 1950s - 1971 | Arab Nationalist. Split in 1968. | |
| الجبعة الشعبية | Popular Front | 1967 elections | Left/nationalist/liberal electoral front | |
| التجمع الوطني | 1968 - 1991 | Left, merchant Nasirists | جاسم القطامي | |
| حركة التقدميين الديمقراطيين الكويتيين | Movement of Kuwaiti Democratic Progressives | 1971 -1991 | Left, socialist. | احمد الخطيب |
| التجمع الديمقراطي | 1981 and 1985 elections | Left electoral front | ||
| المنبر الديمقراطي | Democratic Forum | 1991 - | United existing left/liberal groups, including the Taqaddumiin al-Dimuqratiin al-Kuwaitiin | |
| التجمع الدستوري | 1992- | Merchant liberals | جاسم حمد العبد الله الصقر | |
| التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي | National Democratic Association | Founded May 1997. | Liberals | |
| التحالف الوطني الديمقراطي | National Democratic Alliance | Founded 23 February 2002 |
Liberals | |
| كتلة العمل الوطني | National Bloc | |||
Popular Bloc |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| كتل العمل الشعبي | Popular Bloc | 1999 - | Parliamentary bloc, populist, Shi'a, tribes, some hadar. | احمد عبد العزيز جاسم السعدون |
Bloc of Deputies |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| التكتل النواب | Bloc of Deputies | 1989-92 | Bloc of deputies of the dissolved 1986 majlis | احمد عبد العزيز جاسم السعدون |
Other |
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| Name | English Name | Period | Comments | Prominent Leaders |
| الحركة العدالة والتنمية | Movement for Justice and Development | December 2004 - | Moderate Islamist group | |