Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc

In Bahrain's October 2002 election — the first for the restored Council of Representatives under the new constitution — the Salafi Islamic Asalah Society won seven seats, its best-ever result, establishing itself as the kingdom's leading Sunni Salafi political society. Asalah, the political wing of the Islamic Education Society, has consistently aligned with the ruling Al Khalifa family and conservative social policy.

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Gara, T. (2026). Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/738a6274-9acb-4f7e-ba33-fe3bd2fb5da3

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/738a6274-9acb-4f7e-ba33-fe3bd2fb5da3.

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@misc{tayyar-event-738a6274-9acb-4f7e-ba33-fe3bd2fb5da3,
  title     = {{Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/738a6274-9acb-4f7e-ba33-fe3bd2fb5da3},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2002-10-24. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2002-10-24. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.