Education
He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan.
He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan.
He became a judge in the court of Sulaimaniya, in today"s Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abd-ul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqah, an Islamic religious school and mosque, in Sulaimniya and named it after an Ottoman emperor.