Islam and the Muslim clergy have played an extremely important role in the history of Afghanistan. Only in the last three centuries since the creation of the Afghan state, Islam has played a consolidating role in the fight against British attempts at armed intervention. In the mid-70s of the twentieth century Islam was also used during an armed insurrection against M. Daoud, in which young leaders of the country's religious class played a key role. A few years later in 1979 political parties created by the young leaders of the clergy came out as a united front against the Soviet invasion and the pro-Soviet regime.
