He is the son of Haji Mullah Omar Effendi, son of Mullah Abu Bakr. At the age of seven, Mullah Effendi began reading the Qur'an in the Great Mosque of Erbil Castle at the age of 20, he received a scientific license from his father, Haji Mullah Omar Effendi, and became a great scholar.
When his father died in 1892, Mullah Mullah Omar Effendi was about 30 years old. At that age, he succeeded his father as the scholars of Erbil region.
During his 50 years of teaching, he taught more than 300 jurist and the number of those who received scientific licenses from him reached 100 religious scholars throughout Kurdistan. During the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, he was appointed by the Sultan to mediate the extinguishing of the war between Kurdish tribes in the region.
With the defeat of the Ottoman army against British forces in 1918, some Turks wanted to attack Ankawa in the name of Islam and kill many people on the pretext that the British and the people of Ankawa were Christians. But one of the white-bearded men told them to go to Badawa to ask Mullah Fandi. When they understood this, he immediately told them not to do this because Islam commands us to protect the religions that live with us. In the evening, he met with the men of all the families in Erbil and its surroundings and gave them many advices and kept them away from such fights and divisions.
The late Mullah Fandi supported the movement of Sheikh Mahmoud Malik of Kurdistan at the beginning, but his political position did not go beyond his religious position.
From the 1920s to the early 1940s, he supported the Kurdish youth movement. In the late 1920s, many Kurdish youths were arrested and expelled by the Kurdistan Defense Forces, including Ramzi Fatah, Asaf Rauf Koyi, Mustafa Chicho, Ahmad Fakhri, Rashid Mufti, and many others.
Mullah Fandi was in favor of the Iraqi Leadership granting any national rights defined by the League of Nations for the Kurds.
Mullah Abu Bakr Effendi, a Kurdish scholar and well-known personality in Kurdistan, passed away on #31-12-1942#, leaving a huge gap in the field of science, religion, and charity.[1]