Muslim Youth (Persian: سازمان جوانان مسلمان, Arabic: نهضة الشباب المسلم ) was an underground Islamist group founded in 1969 in Kabul by several Afghan junior professors and a handful of students at Kabul University. Many of the leading figures of the Afghan-Soviet war were members of this group, including Burhanuddin Rabbani, `Abd al-Rabb Rasul Sayyaf, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmed Shah Massoud.
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