Adil Zulfikarpašić (23 December 1921 – 21 July 2008) was a Bosniak intellectual and politician who was the vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, under Bosnia's first President Alija Izetbegović. After the war he retired from politics and opened the Bosniak Institute, a museum in Sarajevo focused on the Bosniak culture. Although in the early period of his life he was close to the Croatian national idea, Zulfikarpašić over time 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 - the idea still prevailed in 1993, when the new name was adopted at the Bosniak Congress attended by the Bosnian Muslim political and cultural representatives. Early life Family Zulfikarpašić was born on 23 December 1921 in Foča, a town along the Drina river in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). He was a member of the Čengić family through both parents. His father Husein Bey Čengić-Zulfikarpašić was a landowner and an intellectual, son of Ali Bey Čengić and a grandson of Zulfikar Pasha Čengić, after whom his paternal family was surnamed Zulfikarpašić. Zulfikaršašić wrote that he used a dual surname throughout his elementary school, but that his family dropped the "Čengić" from their surname while he was still in his youth. Husein served as a mayor of Foča for 25 years after the Austrian-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878. Adil's mother Zahida married Husein when she was 18 years old, while he was in his late 80s. Husein never had several wives at the same time, and his previous three wives died. Zahida was his fourth wife and originated from the Ratalj branch of the Čengić family. Two of them had another son Sabrija and six daughters. The oldest half-brother of Adil was Alija who was 55 years older than him. Husein died in 1936 aged 102 or 104 years when Adil was 15 years old, while Zahida died in 1956. Adil's half-brothers were Alija and Hilmo, both of whom moved to the Ottoman Empire after Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina and changed their surname to Aq Qoyunlu; Ibrahim, Hasan, Hivzo, Hamdija, while Sabrija was his full brother. His half-sisters were Arfa,