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Irish missionary in Damascus and the author of The Empire of the Hittites
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Irish missionary in Damascus and the author of The Empire of the Hittites
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William Wright (15 January 1837 – 31 July 1899) was an Irish missionary in Damascus and the author of The Empire of the Hittites (1884), which introduced the history of the recently discovered Hittite civilization to the general public.
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- The Empire Of The Hittites, with the Decipherment of the Hittite Inscriptions by Professor A.H. Sayce
- An Account Of Palmyra And Zenobia: With Travels And Adventures In Bashan And The Desert
- The Book Of Jonah In Four Oriental Versions, Namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic And Arabic, With Glossaries
- Contributions To The Apocryphal Literature Of The New Testament, Collected And Edited From Syriac Manuscripts In The British Museum
- A Short History Of Syriac Literature
- The Book Of Kalilah & Dimnah: Translated From Arabic Into Syriac
- The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume I, Parts I-X.
- The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume II, Containing The Indexes And Critical Notes, Parts XI And XII.
- Lectures On The Comparative Grammar Of The Semitic Languages
- The Travels Of Ibn Jubair, Edited From A MS. In The University Library Of Leyden
- A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume I
- A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume II
- The Ecclesiastical History Of Eusebius In Syriac, Edited From The Manuscripts, (also by) Norman McClean, M.A., With A Collation Of The Ancient Armenian Version By Dr. Adalbert Merx
- Catalogue Of The Ethiopic Manuscripts In The British Museum Acquired Since The Year 1847
- A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume I
- A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume II
- Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part I
- Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part II
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