William Wright

1830 – 1889

Former Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

• A catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge ...
• A short history of Syriac literature
• A short history of Syriac literature
• An account of Palmyra and Zenobia
• Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament, Collected and Edited from Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum, With an English Translation and Notes
• Elementary Arabic
• Kalīlah and Dimnah
• Lectures on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages
• The book of Jonah in four Oriental versions, namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic and Arabic, with glossaries
• The book of Jonah in four Semitic versions, viz. Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic, and Arabic, with corresponding glossaries by W. Wright
• The empire of the Hittites
• al-Wajīz fī tārīkh al-adab al-Suryānī