Person · r. c. 1338 – c. 1343 (dates contested; job register note gives 734 AH/1334 for the founding)
Jalal-ud-din Ahsan Shah
Delhi's military governor of Ma'bar who threw off allegiance to Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq and made himself independent, founding the Madura sultanate; he was murdered some five years afterward, and the throne then passed through a line of generals not named in the sources read for this job.
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Jalal ad-Din, who had been appointed by Sultan Muhammad of Delhi to the post of military governor of Ma'bar (which had been occupied by the Muhammadans in 1311), made himself independent about 1338, and was murdered five years later. The throne was then occupied by a succession of generals, of whom Ghiyath ad-Din was the third.