Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan

Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan (died 1339), originally named Hasan Kaithali, was the first sultan of the Madurai Sultanate. In 1335 he declared Ma'bar independent of Delhi.

When Muhammad bin Tughluq sent an army against him, Ahsan Khan defeated it; the sultan of Delhi retaliated by executing Ahsan Khan's son Ibrahim, his imperial purse-bearer. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta was his son-in-law. After about four years' rule Ahsan Khan was murdered by one of his nobles in 1339.