Conflicting statements about the builder of the Mosuliya School, it reported that Sharaf al-Din Yahya Abba al-Fath ibn al-Sheikh al-Husseini al-Alban, died in 615 AH / 1218 AD, is a builder.
This school distinguished by the greatness of its construction and the beauty of its main gate, which topped by exquisite rows of hollow girders and domes that hang in its harmonious sequence known as mokarsanat, in addition to the stones of stone, which follow the colors of white and red “cymbals”.
It consists of two floors and an open courtyard in a large western Iwan, surrounded by a number of cells.
The second floor contains a number of rooms dedicated to student housing and teachers and accessed from the open courtyard by a stone staircase.
It recorded in the records of the Islamic court that Mr. Jarallah Al-Latifi was the teacher and owned Awqafha in 1175 AH / 1761 AD.
He was taking a salary of ten Osmaniyat, and the school known as the Islamic school, which belongs to who made waqf, Khawaja Majd al-Din Abu al-Fida Ismail, ne of Cairo’s leading merchants and its rich.
In the school, Mosuliyah on the east bank of the Tigris River, a name borne by the school in the arguments of the endowments that locked.
Some of the books of the Tabu and the records of the Sharia Court of Jerusalem dating back to the sixteenth century confirm the suspension of the school and its location and its relation to the place where the waqf born, it renovated in AH 941 AH / 1435 CE.
Its lengths included stables in the villages of Ni’lin, Jaba’, Albateekh, Albera, And other farms in the appearance of Jerusalem, which dedicated to the teaching of the Koran and the Hadith, especially from the book of Sahih Bukhari.
The duration of study is two years, and reveal many of the legitimate arguments about the participation of Turkish figures counterparts Jerusalem in the administration of the school and its endowments, and boasts a number of scholars and scholars.
It dominated by individuals from the family of Abu al-Latif (Jar allah) since the eighteenth century AD, and become a residence of their own, and until recently was Naji Effendi Metwally endowment.
Abu Bakr al-Shaibani al-Musli visited Jerusalem after 790 AH, and it is noteworthy that the sources that spoke about the Ayyubi era did not talk about this school.
This school played a significant role in the intellectual movement in Jerusalem, where Abu Bakr al-Shibani, and continued to play its intellectual role until the twelfth century AH / Eighteen AD.
The past and present of the school, it was a schoolm then A’al abu Latif since the eighteenth century AD, and became their own housing.