The coming to power of the socialist Ba'ath Party during the 1963 Syrian coup d'état did not end the prestige and kinship loyalties of the prominent clans, including the al-Atrash, who continued to have paramount sheikh. While most leading members of the Ba'ath Party from the Druze community hailed from families on the lower socioeconomic scale, a member of the Bani al-Atrash, Mansur al-Atrash, played a major leadership role in the party in the mid-1960s. In 1984, al-Amir Salim al-Atrash was chosen for this role and accorded the "cloak of leadership" by the three "shuyukh al-uqqal" of the Jabal. The role of Bani al-Atrash sheikh was more ceremonial or symbolic and he had little political power. In the 1990s, the clan had around 5,000 members.