| This is a Wikipedia user page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.[1] Some phrases have stark resemblance to Vedic religions.