Adil Zulfikarpašić

Adil Zulfikarpašić, (other names form: Adil -beg Zulfikarpašić - Čengić; born December 23, 1921 in Foca, † July 21, 2008 in Sarajevo ) was a Bosnian politician ( MBO), philanthropist and businessman.

Family and origin

The original family name was Zulfikar Pasha Čengić, in the 19th/20th. Century it was Zulfikarpašić - Čengić, with Adil took off the name part Čengić as a young man.

The name part of " Zulfikar " derives from the tradition after the double peak Zülfikar sword of Hazrat Aliyah, the fourth Caliph and son of the Prophet Mohammed.

The father was married four times, but never as a Muslim with two women at the same time. At the time of the birth of Adil Zulfikarpašić the father, the mother was already over 80 years old, 17 years old.

The siblings and half-siblings

• Brothers: Alija, Hilmo who emigrated to Turkey and again assumed the name Akkoyunlu and further Ibrahim, Hassan, Hivzo, Hamdija and Sabrija
• Sisters: Arfa, Fatima, Haša, Zumruta, Hasiba, Hajrija, Hamijeta, Fahra and Šefika.

Career

In 1938 he joined the Communist Party. In the first Government of the SR Bosnia - Herzegovina after the war, he was Vice Minister of Commerce, but soon turned to the party from and emigrated in 1946. He lived in Austria and studied political science and law. From the mid- 1950s, he lived in Fribourg ( Switzerland ) and was active in various political liberal oriented émigré organizations. In the 1960s he published a magazine Pogledi Bosanski ( Bosnian Views) out. In Zurich, where he lived since 1965, he founded the Bosnian Institute (1988 renamed Bosniaks Institute), the research into the culture of the Bosnians is dedicated to. Professionally, he worked as a financial service; together with his wife Dr. Tatjana Zulfikarpašić he led the company Stamaco financial and Handels AG. In 1990 he returned to Bosnia and Alija Izetbegovic's party joined SDA. But soon he and Muhamed Filipović the party Muslimanska bošnjačka organizacija (MBO), which represented a much more moderate compared to the SDA nationalism. In the government Izetbegovic he was briefly vice president. He lived in Zurich and Sarajevo in Sarajevo, and built a branch of his Bosnjaks Institute on.

Works

• Milovan Djilas, Nadezhda Gace: Adil Zulfikarpašić. A political biography of today's Bosnia ( = Studies on the current affairs of Southeast Europe 33). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56252-5 (English edition: The Bosniak Adil Zulfikarpašić in dialogue with Milovan Djilas and Nadezhda GACE Hurst & Co., London 1998, ISBN 1-85065-339-9; several editions. . in Serbo-Croatian language appeared in Zurich, most recently: 4th Edition Bošnjački Institute, among others, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905211-00-9 ). .