Arabs (by ethnicity) haven’t controlled the caliphate since around 940. Various Kurdish, Persian, Berber, Circassian, Turkish and other groups have. Though the Prophet’s relatives were kept around as a figurehead right up to the Mongol conquest.
The Mongols didn’t care a hoot about such things. They rolled the last caliph up in his most expensive rug and ran a herd of horses across him.
“The Mongols didn’t care a hoot about such things. They rolled the last caliph up in his most expensive rug and ran a herd of horses across him.”
When nomads were nomads and the sheep were in terror!