Zlatko Hasanbegović, born on June fourteenth, nineteen seventy-three, is a prominent Croatian historian and politician. He has been a member of the Croatian Parliament since two thousand sixteen and served as the Minister of Culture in Tihomir Orešković's cabinet from January twenty-second to October nineteenth of the same year. In addition to his parliamentary role, Hasanbegović is a member of the Zagreb Assembly and one of the founding figures of the Independents for Croatia party.
As a historian, Hasanbegović focuses on the interplay between modern Croatian ideologies, particularly pravaštvo, and their relationship with Islam in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research delves into the Muslim influences on Croatian bourgeois culture prior to nineteen forty-five, as well as the political, religious, and national dynamics in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Austro-Hungarian occupation to the communist takeover.
However, his scholarship has sparked controversy, with international scholars and journalists labeling it as