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William Wright
Image: John Hutchinson (1 June 1832 – 23 May 1910), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

William Wright

وليم رايت

Notable figure 1830–1889 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 32, 160, 166 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, index entry: Wright, William, 17 Jan. 1830 – 22 May 1889, born Mullye, India

Field: Grammar and text editing

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of A Grammar of the Arabic Language

Biography

Born in India, he taught Arabic in London and Dublin, failed to win the Oxford chair (1861), and took the Cambridge chair (1870). His Grammar of the Arabic Language (London 1859–1862) remained the standard grammar in English; he edited al-Mubarrad's al-Kamil (Leipzig 1864–1892) and the Opuscula Arabica, with treatises by Ibn Durayd (Leiden 1859).