modern-day Ossetians are Christian.[89] The Iranian peoples would later split along
sectarian lines as the Persians adopted the Shi'a sect. As ancient tribes and identities
changed, so did the Iranian peoples, many of whom assimilated foreign cultures and
peoples.[90]
Later, during the 2nd millennium AD, the Iranian peoples would play a prominent role
during the age of Islamic expansion and empire. Saladin, a noted adversary of
the Crusaders, was an ethnic Kurd, while various empires centered in Iran (including
the Safavids) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language
spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and the Caucasus. Iranian influence
spread to the neighbouring Ottoman Empire, where Persian was often spoken at court
(though a heavy Turko-Persian basis there was set already by the predecessors of the
Ottomans in Anatolia, namely the Seljuks and the Sultanate of Rum amongst others) as
well to the court of the Mughal Empire. All of the major Iranian peoples reasserted their
use of Iranian languages following the decline of Arab rule, but would not begin to form
modern national identities until the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Relation Of The Clan with Aryan Race.
The People from European continent came to India subcontinent were the ancestors of
the old clan. Hence, they were the part of the Aryan race who later incorporated &
merged with many dynasties and tribes.