The work of Singer Al-Jawali with Nasser Muhammad as governor of Gaza and then arrested, after having spent a period of release his emirate returned to Cairo. Where he worked as an inspector for the hospital and school Qalawun. He was born in (653 AH / 1255 AD). He died in 745 AH / 1345 AD. He was a scholar who devoted to jurisprudence Al – Shafi’i mentioned in more than one site.
The school built in the Mamluk period, when Singer was governor of Palestine and Gaza.
Its restoration was at the beginning of the fifteenth century for use as a governor of Jerusalem, and used in the period Ottoman Empire as the seat of Ottoman rule in 1870. When the new Pasha moved to the Saraya stayed empty. At the time of the British Mandate government, the police headquarters were taken in a year in 1938 the Mujahideen took over the headquarters of holy jihad.
In the 1940s the beginning of Jordanian rule It become part of the Al Omarya School and is still part of it, but it is ruined.
When the city of Jerusalem liberated, the Ayyubids restored it as a school and headquarters of the Ayyubid leadership. One buried Leaders, parents and good scholars Sheikh Derbas. It is worth mentioning that Jahiliyyah is located between Muhaddithiya in the west and Sabibiyya in the east and is still superior to Jahiliyya Ottoman buildings not used to this day.