15 years ago today - Feb 03, 1998

In Washington, D.C., Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Twelve and Elder Merrill J. Bateman (BYU president and member of the Seventy), along with several LDS members of the U.S. Congress, host a gathering of diplomats from ten predominantly Muslim countries to celebrate BYU's publication of the first English translation of the Islamic text, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, by Al-Ghazali, a twelfth-century Muslim philosopher.

[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]

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