- Bashyazi, Elijah
- (1420-90)Turkish Karaite scholar. He was the ideologist of the Karaite rapproachement with the rabbis, and a codifier of Karaite law. His Adderet Eliyahu is a code of Karaite law.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Bashyazi, Elijah
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