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 Aly Maher Pasha.
Nevertheless, the Ittihad failed in his goal of built a conservative party, due to his religious views.
After this alliance, the Ittihad became mostly active against Copts, and refused the French Revolution, reputed as anarchy, supported a strong authoritarian state.
[1] Despite his low electoral results, he party took over the governments of Egypt in 1930s thanks the support of independent politicians present in the House of Representatives.