{{hoax}} The Sair al-Okul is a manuscript anthology of Arabic poetry kept in the Makhtab-e-Sultania Library in Istanbul, Turkey. The anthology was compiled in 1742 on the orders of Sultan Salim.{{dubious}}

The manuscript was first edited in 1864 in Berlin, and in 1932 in Beirut.{{dubious}}

In a 13 page pamphlet headed 'WAS KAABA A HINDU TEMPLE? IS ALLAH A HINDU GOD?', one Purushottam Nagesh Oak derives a claim of a "Vedic past of Arabia" based on an alleged poem mentioning king Vikramāditya, originally hanging at the Kaaba. The text of the inscription Oak quotes from the Sayar-ul-Okul.[1] Some phrases have stark resemblance to Vedic religions.

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  1. ^ Muslim Digest, July to Oct. 1986 pages 23-24;[1] Purushottam Nagesh Oak, Indian Kshatriyas Once Ruled from Bali to Baltic & Korea to Kaba (1966)

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