Persian Satire
Persian satire refers to satires in Persian literature. Early Persian satire The Arabic poetic genre of ''hija'' (satirical poetry) was introduced after the Islamic conquest of Persia. The Greek dramatic genre of comedy was also later introduced after Aristotle's '' Poetics'' was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Islamic philosophers from Persia, such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with the Arabic poetic form of ''hija''. They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension", and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or troublesome beginnings and happy endings, associated with classical Greek comedy. The term "comedy" thus became synonymous with "satire" in medieval European literature after the Latin translations of the 12th century. Perhaps the most notable early Persian satirist is Obeid e Zakani (d. ...
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