Turkish delight form of "lokum" made with starch and sugar. The family business, now in its fifth generation, still operates under the founder's name. Tim Richardson, a historian of sweets, has questioned the popular attribution of Hacı Bekir as the inventor of Turkish Delight, writing that "specific names and dates are often erroneously associated with the invention of particular sweets, not least for commercial reasons". Similar Arab and Persian recipes, including the use of starch and sugar, predate Bekir by several centuries. The Oxford Companion to Food states that although Bekir is often credited with the invention, there is no hard evidence
Abu Bakr Effendi father Molla Omar Al-Baghdadi an Ottoman Governor, was killed by Kurdish tribesmen uprising against the authority. He is known to have studied in the Madrassa originally set up by his ancestor Emir Suleyman Ghazi for the people of the area. Not much is known of Emir Suleyman Ghazi directly from Abubakrs personal documents. He is however a contemporary of Suleyman Ghazi the founder of the Ottoman Empire and Suleyman Sultan of Rum who lived at similar recorded times. Further studies and teachings of Abubakr were in Erzurum, Istanbul, and Makkah. According to the Travelogue of Omar Lutfi Effendi, while he