Ishaq Ibn Imran

Ishaq Ibn Imran (died c. 903-9) was an Arab[1] physician working in Kairouan, which at the time was the capital of Tunisia. His treatise on melancholy, written c.900,[2] was translated into Latin by Constantine the African in the eleventh century.[3]

References
  1. Horden, Peregrine (2017). Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity. Routledge. ISBN 9781351557474.
  2. Adel Omrani et al, Ibn Imran's 10th century Treatise on Melancholy, Journal of Affective Disorders 141 (2012), pp.116-9.
  3. Angus Gowland, Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy, Revue Babel 25 (2012), pp.221-57.
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