At the end of the nineteenth century, when Arab schools were sparsely dispersed in all corners of our Arab world, Al Ma’aref college was founded by Sheikh Mohammed Al Saleh in the Quashlaq building of Jerusalem. The building dated back before Christ, to the days of the Romans who used it as fortress, until prince Alamuddin Singer, the Muslim governor of Jerusalem and Gaza, who was also a man of letters, converted it into a school under the name of Al Jaoulieh School.