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- Islamist · Sunni · electoral 13 Sunni political Islam operating through elections and parliaments — the Muslim Brotherhood tradition. Treats Islam as a framework for governance through mass parties competing for power within constitutional systems where allowed.
- Islamist · Shia 5 Shia political-religious movements, often combining a political wing with armed or paramilitary infrastructure. Spans Hezbollah and the Iraqi shia coalitions to the Houthis' Zaidi revival.
- Islamist · militant 3 Armed Islamist movements where the resistance / militant identity dominates over electoral politics. Often listed as terrorist organisations by Western states; included here because they hold real political power in the regions they operate.
- Islamist · Salafi 2 Salafi-leaning parties advocating return to early-Islamic norms. Some parliamentary (Egypt's Nour, Bahrain's al-Asalah), some quietist or anti-democratic in posture.
- Religious Jewish 5 Israeli religious parties — Religious Zionism (Mizrahi tradition, settler movement) and Haredi (Ashkenazi UTJ, Sephardi Shas). Distinct from the secular Israeli right on most policy outside the Arab–Israeli conflict.
- Religious Christian 3 Lebanese Christian parties operating within the confessional system. Maronite-aligned, with coalition histories that cross the secular–religious line (Kataeb, Lebanese Forces, FPM).
- Nationalist · Arab 14 Arab nationalism in its Nasserist, Baathist, or state-nationalist tradition — typically secular, statist, anti-colonial, often anti-Israel. Today either historical (Baath, FLN) or rebranded as pro-regime coalitions (Mostaqbal Watan, GPC).
- Nationalist · ethnic 5 Ethnic-identity nationalism — Kurdish parties (KDP, PUK), Palestinian-Israeli parties (Balad, Ta'al), Israeli ethno-nationalist parties (Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu), Berber, and others organising around a distinct ethnic identity rather than a pan-Arab one.
- Left · communist 12 Communist and revolutionary-left parties with marxist heritage. From the Israeli Hadash and the Iraqi / Sudanese Communist Parties to the Palestinian DFLP and PFLP.
- Left · social democratic 9 Social-democratic parties — left on economics, generally liberal on civil rights. Israeli Labor, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Moroccan USFP, Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (Jumblatt's Druze constituency).
- Secular liberal 12 Secular liberal parties — separation of religion and state, classical liberal economics, civil liberties. Includes the Free Egyptians, the New Wafd, Israel's Yesh Atid, Morocco's PAM, Tunisia's Long Live Tunisia.