Adil Zulfikarpašić
Adil Zulfikarpašić | |
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| Vice President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| In office 20 December 1990 – 14 March 1996 | |
| President | Alija Izetbegović |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 December 1921 |
| Died | 21 July 2008 (aged 86) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Party | Muslim Bosniak Organisation |
| Spouse | Tatjana Nikšić |
| Relations | Ante Nikšić (father-in-law), Bojan Zulfikarpašić (great-nephew), Zulfikar Paša Čengić (great-grandfather) |
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| Website | www.bosnjackiinstitut.ba |
Adil Zulfikarpašić (23 December 1921 – 21 July 2008) was a Bosniak intellectual and politician who served as vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, under the first president of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović. After the war he retired from politics and opened the Bosniak Institute, a museum in Sarajevo focused on the Bosniak culture.
Although a proponent of the Croatian national idea in his early life, Zulfikarpašić later advocated the position that Bosnian Muslims should build their own national identity and advocated the adoption of the Bosniak name. At first there was resistance to this idea, including within the leading political party of Bosnian Muslims—the Party of Democratic Action—but it prevailed in 1993 when the new name was adopted at the Bosniak Congress attended by Bosnian Muslim political and cultural representatives.