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

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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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