A short-lived independent Muslim sultanate proclaimed at Madurai in Tamil Nadu by Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan, who broke away from the Delhi Sultanate; it became the southernmost Islamic state in India before its conquest by Vijayanagara.
The last sultan, Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah, was killed at the Battle of Madurai in 1378 by Vijayanagara general Kumara Kampana, ending the sultanate after eight rulers in 43 years.
Standard survey covering the Ma'bar/Madurai Sultanate's rise from the Delhi Sultanate's southern campaigns and its fall to Vijayanagara; no dedicated English-language monograph on the Madurai Sultanate alone was found verified in Open Library.