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Sarouyeh ( fa, سارویه) was a large library in ancient pre-Islamic
Sarouyeh ( fa, سارویه) was a large library in ancient pre-Islamic Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
. The 10th century chronicler Ahmad ibn Rustah refers to it as "Sarough" (). The ''Fars Nameh'' of Ibn Balkhi calls it ''Haft Halkeh'' ().
The library, located near where the city of Isfahan is today, is written by some sources to have been from the era of Tahmuras
Tahmuras or Tahmures ( fa, تهمورث ,طهمورث, ; from Avestan ''Taxma Urupi'', meaning ''strong fox'') was the third Shah of the Pishdadian dynasty of Iran (Persia) according to Ferdowsi's epic poem, the ''Shahnameh''. He is considere ...
, in ancient Iran. Majmal al-tawarikh also mentions the library.
Ibn Sa'd al-Iṣfahānī, in the surviving translation of his book ''Maḥāsin-i Eṣfahān'' ''()'' edited by Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani
Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani ( fa, عباس اقبال آشتیانی; 1896-97 – February 10, 1956) was an Iranian literary scholar, historian, translator, and man of letters.
Eqbal Ashtiani was born in Ashtian. He was educated at Dar ul-Funun (House ...
, gives both the real and the mythical traditions of the foundation and re-foundation of the library.
Abbas Milani describes the fortified collection of writings and documents as such:
:"Though only a few pages of its vast holdings have survived, we know of its grandeur through the testimony of its contemporaries, who compared it, in terms of the awe it inspired, to the Egyptian pyramids". Abbas Milani. ''Lost Wisdom''. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15.
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