Sarouyeh

In today's world, Sarouyeh is a topic that has sparked great interest and debate in different areas. Its relevance and impact are undeniable, and its influence extends to a wide range of aspects of daily life. As time progresses, Sarouyeh continues to be the object of analysis, reflection and study, since its importance is not limited to a single area, but crosses borders and affects people of different cultures, ages and social conditions. In this article, we will explore this topic in depth, analyzing its different perspectives and consequences, in order to better understand its scope and meaning in today's society.

Remnants of Sarouyeh library

Sarouyeh (Persian: سارویه) was a large library in ancient pre-Islamic Iran. The 10th century chronicler Ahmad ibn Rustah refers to it as "Sarough" (ساروق). The Fars Nameh of Ibn Balkhi calls it Haft Halkeh (هفت هلکه).[1]

The library, located near where the city of Isfahan is today,[2] may have been from the era of Tahmuras,[3] 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 (محاسن اصفهان) edited by Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani, gives both the real and the mythical traditions of the foundation and re-foundation of the library.[4]

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

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".[5]

References

  1. ^ European edition, p. 29
  2. ^ Abbas Milani. Lost Wisdom. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 0-934211-90-6
  3. ^ Dehkhoda dictionary, under سارویه
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Abbas Milani. Lost Wisdom. 2004. Mage Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 0-934211-90-6


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