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[[File:Sarouyeh 0981.JPG|thumb|Remnants of Sarouyeh library]]
'''Sarouyeh''' ({{langx|fa|سارویه}}) was a large library in ancient pre-Islamic [[Iran]]. The 10th century chronicler [[Ahmad ibn Rustah]] refers to it as "Sarough" ({{lang|fa|ساروق}}). The ''Fars Nameh'' of [[Ibn Balkhi]] calls it ''Haft Halkeh'' ({{lang|fa|هفت هلکه}}).<ref>European edition, p. 29</ref>

The library, located near where the city of [[Isfahan]] is today,<ref>[[Abbas Milani]]. ''Lost Wisdom''. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15. {{ISBN|0-934211-90-6}}</ref> may have been from the era of [[Tahmuras]],<ref>[[Dehkhoda dictionary]], under {{lang|fa|سارویه}}</ref> 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'' ''({{lang|fa|محاسن اصفهان}})'' edited by [[Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani]], gives both the real and the mythical traditions of the foundation and re-foundation of the library.<ref>ترجمه محاسن اصفهان. تالیف مفضل بن سعد بن الحسین المافروخی الاصفهانی. ترجمه  حسین بن محمد آوی. به کوشش عباس اقبال آشتیانی. اصفهان، سازمان فرهنگی تفریحی شهرداری (1385). ص 38</ref>

[[Abbas Milani]] describes the fortified collection of writings and documents as follows: 

{{quote|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".<ref>[[Abbas Milani]]. ''Lost Wisdom''. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15. {{ISBN|0-934211-90-6}}</ref>}}

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