Ishaq Ibn Imran (died c. 903-9) was an Arab physician working in

Kairouan Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( ar, ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, al-Qayrawān , aeb, script=Latn, Qeirwān ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by th ...

, which at the time was the capital of

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. His treatise on melancholy, written c.900, was translated into Latin by

Constantine the African Constantine the African ( la, Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in Ifriqiya and the rest in Italy. He first arrived in Italy in the c ...

in the eleventh century.Angus Gowland
Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy
''Revue Babel'' 25 (2012), pp.221-57.

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