Sarouyeh () was a large library in ancient pre-Islamic Iran. The 10th century chronicler Ahmad ibn Rustah refers to it as "Sarough" (). The Fars Nameh of Ibn Balkhi calls it Haft Halkeh ().European edition, p. 29

The library, located near where the city of Isfahan is today,Abbas Milani. Lost Wisdom. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15. may have been from the era of Tahmuras,Dehkhoda dictionary, under 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, gives both the real and the mythical traditions of the foundation and re-foundation of the library.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

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

See also List of libraries in Iran

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