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 t ...

, which at the time was the capital of

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. His treatise on

melancholy Melancholy may refer to: * Melancholia, one of the four temperaments in pre-modern medicine and proto-psychology, representing a state of low mood * Depression (mood), a state of low mood, also known as melancholy * Major depressive disorder, a mo ...

, 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 ...

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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9th-century births 900s deaths People from Kairouan Physicians of the medieval Islamic world 9th-century physicians 9th-century people of Ifriqiya {{physician-stub