Cultural centre in Sarajevo
Bo?nja?ki institut
The Bosniak Institute
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| Founder(s)
| Adil Zulfikarpa?i?
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| Established
| 1988 (in Switzerland) 2001 (in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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| President
| Prof. Dr. Faris Gavrankapetanovi?
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| Staff
| 18
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| Key people
| Fehim ?kalji?
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| Address
| Mula Mustafe Ba?eskije 21, Sarajevo 71000
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| Location
| Sarajevo
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Website
| bosnjackiinstitut
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The
Bosniak Institute
is an institution of culture and scholarship in
Sarajevo
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
. It has a museum and a gallery, a cultural centre and a library, a publishing house and a cultural centre. The institute is the result of its founder,
Adil Zulfikarpa?i?
, a donor (
waqf
), businessman, politician and promotor of cultural and educational life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With his wife Tatjana Zulfikarpa?i?, he collected and preserved
cultural heritage
and contemporary production about Bosnia and Herzegovina, ranging from documents, photographs, postcards, maps, to books, encyclopaedias, journals, and other archival and library materials. The Bosniak Institute was founded in Zurich in 1988, and after the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina the entire stock was moved to Sarajevo, and opened in 2001.
The Bosniak Institute includes a library, archive, art collection, galleries, reading rooms and researcher and scholar study rooms, conference rooms, and other amenities.
Gazi Husrev-bey's Hammam
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The institute is situated in the centre of
Sarajevo
, at Mula Mustafe Ba?eskije 21, adjacent to Gazi Husrev-begov hamam (Gazi Husrev-bey's Hammam), a public bath (
hammam
) built in 1535. Architects Hasan ?emalovi? and Ahmet Kapid?i? were awarded the
Sixth of April Sarajevo Award
in 2001 for the building, library, and a successful restoration of the Gazi Husrev-bey's Hammam. Two endowments (
waqfs
) are materialised in the Hammam building, first, Gazi Husrev-bey's, established when Islamic culture, education and scholarship were at their outset in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Bosniak Institute.
Library
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The library of the Bosniak Institute has over 250,000 items (books, journals, maps, articles and other materials) ranging from the 14th century to contemporary scholarly and trade-specific resources of the 21st century. The library includes the following sections: Bosnica, Croatica, Serbica, Turcica, Islamica, Yugoslavica, manuscripts, reference works, as well as the collections such as Judaica, Bogomils, Sanjak, Emigrantica, and the 1992-1995 war section.
Art collection
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The art collection of the Bosniak Institute evolved during several decades, originally as the private collection of Adil Zulfikarpa?i? and his wife Tatjana, and subsequently as the collection of the Bosniak Institute.
The collection includes more than 1500 artworks (paintings, engravings, and sculptures) by many Bosnian authors, from Ismet Mujezinovi?, Hakija Kulenovi?, Rizah ?teti?, Ibrahim Ljubovi?, Vojo Dimitrijevi?,
Mersad Berber
, Affan Rami?, Mevludin Ekme?i?, to
Safet Zec
, Salim Obrali?, Mehmed Zaimovi?, and others. The donated private collections of Mersad Berber, Mevludin Ekme?i?,
Ismet Rizvi?
, Edo Numankadi? and others are particularly significant.
Archive
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The archive includes more than 8000 items ranging from the 15th century to the modern age.
Mission
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The mission of the Bosniak Institute is to promote cultural heritage, historical truth and culture of Bosniaks and other peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As part of its programs and activities, the institute develops and fosters scholarly cooperation with similar institutions in the country and abroad, collects, examines and preserves cultural and historical heritage and contemporary scholarly and trade-specific production of Bosnia and Herzegovina, organises scholarly, scientific, expert and international events, and develops its publishing production.
Management
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The Bosniak institute is managed by the steering committee and the managing director. The chair of the steering committee is
Fehim ?kalji?
, deputy chair is Mirsad Kurtovi?, and the secretary is Erdal Trhulj. The director of the Bosniak Institute is Professor Faris Gavrankapetanovi?, Ph.D. Other members of the steering committee are: Professor
Zlatko Lagumd?ija
, Ph.D., Mirsada Huki?, Ph.D., Hilmo Neimarlija, Ph.D., Safet Band?ovi?, Ph.D., Jasmina Be?lagi?, Zijo Krvavac, and Taner Ali?ehi?.
References
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- Bo?nja?ki institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a. (2004)
Bo?nja?ki institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a : Dolmabahce Saray Istanbul 28.11.04.-28.12.04.
. Sarajevo : Bo?nja?ki institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a, 2004.
- Filandra, ?. i Kari?, E. (2002)
Bo?nja?ka ideja
. Zagreb: Globus.
- Puljek-Bubri?, Narcisa (2005.).
Promocija privatne bibliote?ke zbirke : iskustva Bo?nja?kog instituta-fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a.
ICSL - Godi?njak Međunarodnog susreta bibliotekara slavista u Sarajevu. ISSN 1840-1295. - God. 1, br. 1 (decembar/prosinac 2005), str. 166-169.
- Puljek-Bubri?, N., Kujovi?, M. i Gad?o Kasumovi?, A. (2020)
Vodi? kroz Arhiv Bo?nja?kog instituta - Fondacije Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a
. Sarajevo : Bo?nja?ki institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a.
- Riznica bo?nja?ke kulture.
Behar : ?asopis za kulturu i dru?tvena pitanja, 19 (96). Zagreb : Kulturno dru?tvo Muslimana Hrvatske Preporod, 2010.
- Rizvanbegovi?-D?uvi?, Amina; Puljek-Bubri?, Narcisa (2007.).
Slavisti?ke kolekcije Bo?nja?kog instituta : zbirke Emigrantika, Bogumili, Ratna zbirka i Orijentalni rukopisi = Slavic collections of Bosniak Institute : emigrantica, bogumils, war collection and oriental manuscripts.
Bosniaca : ?asopis Nacionalne i univerzitetske biblioteke Bosne i Hercegovine. ISSN 1512-5033. - God. 12, br. 12 (decembar 2007), str. 68-72.
- Rizvanbegovi?-D?uvi?, Amina; Puljek-Bubri?, Narcisa. (2007.).
Promocija privatne bibliote?ke zbirke : iskustva Bo?nja?kog instituta-fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a
. ICSL - Godi?njak Međunarodnog susreta bibliotekara slavista u Sarajevu ... = ICSL - Yearbook of International Convention of Slavicist Librarian's in Sarajevo .. ISSN 1840-1295. - God. 3, br. 3 (decembar/prosinac 2007), str. 73-75.
- Zbirka likovnih djela Bo?njaka : 1988-2001
/ Sarajevo : Bo?nja?ki institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpa?i?a, 2001.
- Zulfikarpa?i?, A. (1998)
The Bosniak : Adil Zulfikarpa?i?
. London: London : Hurst & Company.
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