Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn Aḥsan Kaythalī (r. 734–9/1334–9), sometimes erroneously called Sayyid Ḥasan (e.g., Yaḥyā, 106), was the founder of the short-lived sultanate of Maʿbar in South India and father-in-law of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (d. 770/1368–9 or 779/1377), who had …
