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.