User:Dbachmann/Sair al-Okul

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. Some phrases have stark resemblance to Vedic religions.