Which rulers and religious groups welcomed Ibn Battuta in Anatolia?

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Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background. — Ibn Battuta Ibn Baṭṭūṭah (right) with an Egyptian man in Egypt.

During his travels through Anatolia, Ibn Battuta was received with cordiality and generosity by all the local rulers who governed the region's various petty sultanates at the time. Additionally, he was welcomed by the heads of religious brotherhoods known as ākhīs.1