Founded by the prime-minister of the sultanate in the late 15th century, it bears testimony to the scholarly genius of Mahmud Gawan, who first came to Delhi, in exile, as a Persian trader[2] from Gilan in Iran and moved to Bidar in 1453.

In 2014, UNESCO placed the building on its "tentative list" to become a World Heritage Site, under the name Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate.

[a][5] Situated on the Deccan Plateau, 710 metres (2,330 ft) AMSL,[6]: 42  Bidar is a place of Cultural and Historical Importance for many years.

Its principal east façade, now partly ruined, faces the city's main street leading to the Bidar Fort.

The historians of this time describes ″he entered the city and proceeding to a mosque which had been built 200 years before, in the reign of Bahamani Sultans, he caused the Kutba to be read in the name of his father Emperor Shah Jahan.

[6]: 43 The structure suffered significant damage following a lightning strike in AH 1107 (1695/1696 CE) and the building fell into disuse.

The minaret at the northern and of the façade and the wall adjoining it towards the south are comparatively the best preserved portions of the madrasa, although only fragments of their tile decoration and trellis work have survived.

The minaret has three storey, the first and second have balconies which project from the main body of the tower in a curvilinear form, without support brackets.

این مدرسہ رفیع و محمود بنا تعمیر شدہ است قبله اهل صفا آثار قبول بین که تاریخش از آیت ربّنا تقبّل مِنّا This exalted school with a high (lit.

[clarification needed] The building contains lecture halls, a laboratory, a mosque, students’ hostel, dining room, and quarters for teaching faculty.

It included marking boundaries around these structures, building aesthetically designed compound walls, providing lighting and laying gardens around some monuments.

[citation needed] In 2024, the ASI signed an agreement with the Bidar-based Shaheen Group of Institutions to assist with preserving the site.