The Dawah Party was an Islamic political party founded in Metro Detroit, Michigan in 2023 with the purpose of electing socially conservative Muslims to political office in opposition to both the socially liberal Democratic Party and the Christian-dominated, anti-multiculturalism Republican Party. Islamic student activist Noor Alfayyadh founded the Dawah Party with the encouragement of her college's Muslim Students Association and Islamic organizations in Dearborn, Hamtramck, and other Arab communities in the Detroit metropolitan area, and the party ran a slate of candidates for the Michigan House of Representatives in 2023. In the party's first election, Alfayyadh and her classmate Nabiha Khoury were elected to represent Dearborn and Hamtramck, respectively, and their party won 4.63% of the statewide vote.
The Dawah Party drew its support from socially conservative Muslim Michiganders, especially recent immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Bosnia, and India. Many of these voters were previously Democratic stalwarts, sapping support from the Democratic Party and enabling the Republicans to win the 2023 state house elections. The party, the first of its kind in America, sought to uphold the principles of Islamic democracy: a democratic society in which human rights and economic policy would be determined by a conservative interpretation of the Quran. For this reason, the party held conservative views such as opposition to prostitution, legalized drugs, crime, gay rights, and feminism, while holding progressive views such as opposition to unregulated free-market capitalism, Israel, and white supremacism and support for environmentalism and multiculturalism. As Alfayyadh attempted to expand her party's appeal towards non-Muslims and more moderate Muslims, the party focused its efforts on promoting centrist policies and a more moral version of capitalism. The party also began to attract Democrats who had voted "uncommitted" in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary in Michigan, including progressive non-Muslims who saw voting for the party as being supportive of the Palestinian cause overseas.