Ittihad is separate and distinct from Union Party.The Ittihad Party ("Union Party", Arabic: حزب الاتحاد‎, Hizb al-Ittihad) was a right-wing political party active in the Kingdom of Egypt.The party was founded by a group of ulamas with royalist and islamist ideas that legitimized the Sir Lee Stack's assassination in 1924. This group was composed also by young future political leaders like Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr and Ali Mahir Pasha.