Editing Humour (section)

===In Arabic and Persian culture===
[[File:Hadith imam baqir.svg|thumb|Muhammad al-Baqir's [[Hadith]] about humour: "Indeed Allah loves those who are playful among people without obscenity."]]
The terms comedy and satire became synonymous after Aristotle's ''Poetics'' was translated into Arabic in the [[Islamic Golden Age|medieval Islamic world]], where it was elaborated upon by [[Arabic literature|Arabic writers]] and [[Early Islamic philosophy|Islamic philosophers]] such as [[Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus|Abu Bischr]], his pupil [[Al-Farabi]], Persian [[Avicenna]], and [[Averroes]]. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from [[Greek drama]]tic representation, and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms, such as ''[[hija]]'' (satirical poetry). 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. After the [[Latin translations of the 12th century]], the term ''comedy'' thus gained a new meaning in [[Medieval literature]].<ref>{{citation|title=Comedy as Satire in Hispano-Arabic Spain|first=Edwin J.|last=Webber|journal=Hispanic Review|volume=26|issue=1|date=January 1958|pages=1–11|doi=10.2307/470561|jstor=470561}}</ref>