The Development of the Islamic Movement from the 1960s

The assumption of power by Daoud Khiin for a while pacified the Left movement, part of which was co-opted into the republican regime. The religious opposition, on the other hand, was silenced through repression which, however, led to a further radicalization of its political ideology and strategy, so that by the end of Daoud Khiin's regime, both among the Left and the religious movement, underground and subversive groups existed.