Jordan party
Islamic Action Front
جبهة العمل الإسلاميPolitical wing of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Won the largest opposition share in the 2024 parliamentary elections.
- Founded
- 1992
- Current leader
- Murad Adailah
- Founders
- Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (founded 1945); IAF formed 1992
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election
In Jordan''s general election on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of 138 seats — more than any other party and its strongest result since 1989, with observers linking the gains to its stance on the Gaza war. Turnout was about 32 percent and the IAF stayed well short of a majority.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Manifesto Arabic 2026-04-22 النظام الأساسي — المادة الثالثة: أهداف الحزب (Basic Statute of the Islamic Action Front, Art. 3 — now 'Hizb al-Umma')
المادة الثالثة: أهداف الحزب وغاياته: انطلاقا من التزام الحزب بأحكام الإسلام والدستور الأردني وقانون الاحزاب السياسية فإنه يسعى الى تحقيق الأهداف التالية: أ. الأهداف العامة: 1. الحفاظ على الهوية الحضارية العربية…
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Press release Arabic 2024-10-18 Islamic Action Front — statement endorsing the 18 October 2024 Dead Sea cross-border attack on Israeli forces (DAWN English translation of the Arabic communiqué)
The Islamic Action Front Party blesses the heroic operation carried out by two young members of the Islamic movement, the heroic martyr Amer Qawas and the heroic martyr Hossam Abu Ghazaleh, this morning in the Dead Sea…
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Article English 2024-09-10 Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election (10 Sep 2024)
In Jordan's general election held on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of the 138 seats in the House of Representatives, more than any other…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded 1992 as political wing of Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood
- government_role en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Won 31 of 138 seats - largest opposition bloc
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Islamic Action Front [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/iaf
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Islamic Action Front." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/iaf.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-iaf,
title = {{Islamic Action Front}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/iaf},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.