He is the son of Irfan Effendi, son of Mullah Abdullah, son of Mullah Rasul Kazhawi. He was born in 1881 in Kani Askan neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah. He studied first with his father and then with Khawaja Effendi. He went to Baghdad to complete his studies and from there to Istanbul, where he completed his military staff and was appointed an officer in the Sixth Corps of the Ottoman Army.
When World War I ended and the British formed an army in Sulaymaniyah from the people of the region, known as the Levi Army, Jamal Irfan was appointed commander of the infantry and then given the post of director of Marga village. In 1920, he returned to Sulaymaniyah and became a member of the city's administrative council.
During this time he played an important role in the political struggle and was one of the most active intellectuals of his time. He published many articles and researches in the newspaper Peshkewtin. Influenced by the political organizations established by the Kurds of Istanbul, Jamal Irfan, who returned to Sulaymaniyah in 1920, established a number of political organizations that all had the same program, goals and internal rules. These include the Ta'aly Kurdistan, Kurdistan, the Patriots, the Martyrs of Kurdistan, and the Sunrise. This patriotic personality in his writings and positions has always supported the poor and progressive beliefs and deeply understood economic and philosophical issues, so the conservatives openly opposed him, but Jamal Irfan did not give up and continued his path.
Jamal Irfan was assassinated in Sulaymaniyah on #12-12-1923#.
After the uprising, an institution named Jamal Irfan Cultural Institute was established in Sulaymaniyah.[1]