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The Sayar-ul-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 the Sultan Salim.[dubious ]
The manuscript was first edited in 1864 in Berlin, and in 1932 in Beirut.
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 inscription mentioning king Vikramāditya found at the Kaaba. The text of the inscription Oak quotes from the Sayar-ul-Okul. Muslim Digest, July to Oct. 1986 pages.[1]