David. Bashyazi's other works The other works of Bashyazi are: (1) Iggeret ha-Tzom (Letter on Fasting on Saturday), divided into three sections. This letter was directed against Solomon Sharbit ha-Zahab, who opposed the opinion of Aaron ben Elijah the Karaite. (2) Iggeret Gid ha-Nashh (Letter on the Sinew Which Shrank, Gen. xxxii. 33), discussing the question whether the prohibition extends to fowl. This, too, was directed against Solomon Sharbit ha-Zahab. (3) Iggeret ha-Yerushah (Letter on Inheritance). These three works have been published by Abraham Firkovich (Eupatoria, 1835) with the second edition of the Aderet. (4) Haluqat ha-Karaim (The Schism of the Karaite). (5) Keli Nehoshet (Tool of Copper), on the use of the astrolabe and its construction, together with a treatise on astronomy. (6) Melitzat ha-Mitzvot (The Precepts in Verses), imitated from the Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol. This was published in the Karaite siddur, ed. Vienna, ii. 175. Bashyazi wrote also many prayers which were embodied in the Karaite prayer-book (ed. Vienna, iii. 226). Family Elijah Bashyazi's great-grandson was Moses ben Elijah Bashyazi, who was also a Karaite scholar. References Resources Mikdash Me'at: An English Language Abridgement of Adderet Eliyahu Translation with commentary, by Tomer Mangoubi, of Khacham Elijah Bashyazi's 15th century masterpiece of Jewish law. The Adderet Eliyahu text in Hebrew The Yeriot Shelomo text in Hebrew, written by Solomon Afeda Cohen in 1860, which is a widely used Hebrew language abridgment of the Adderet Eliyahu text. Kohler, Kaufman and Isaac Broydé. "Bashyazi, Elijah b. Moses b. Menahem of Adrianople". Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906; which cites: Fürst, Gesch. des Karäerthums, pp. 304-310; Gottlober, Bikkoret la-Toledot ha-Karaim, p. 158; Yost, Gesch. des Judenthums, ii. 331 et seq.; P. F. Frankl, "Karaiten", in Ersch and Gruber, Encyklopädie, p. 18, note, 1883; Neubauer, Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek, 1866, pp. 60, 140 et seq. 1420s births 1490 deaths Byzantine Jews Byzantine philosophers People from Edirne 15th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Philosophers of Judaism Karaite rabbis Jews in the medieval Islamic world