


It'll be a good chance to burn off all the calories that you're about to consume.Īnd if you're too full at the end of the day you can just take Metro back. If you don't have a bike, no worries! Grab some wheels from a Capital Bikeshare(CaBi) dock on the Mall and pedal along the Potomac. It's just about ten miles from the National Mall to the Alexandria waterfront, it's a ride that takes about an hour at a leisurely pace. You can bike along the Mount Vernon Trail. A good way to find parking if that is how you want to travel is to reserve spot using SpotHero. The traffic is often as gridlocked as congressional politics and parking is at a premium, especially when the weather is nice.īesides, the journey is half the fun. In this article we have presented an overview of relevant literature with an intention to comprehensively analyse this issue and assess the allegations made against Umar R.A., the second caliph of Islam.You have a full menu of transportation options for getting to Old Town, and driving should be at the bottom of that list. A vast majority of researchers (Muslim as well non-Muslim) who have studied this matter critically have outrightly rejected such an allegation on Caliph Umar. Even after it has been proven as fabricated, there are many who are still not willing to reject it as they consider it helpful in meeting their hate agenda.

The missionaries and the atheists then clung on it and spread it. Some historians copied this idea from its generators without any investigation (as is the case with most books of history from that time). Tracing back the intentions behind this intellectual dishonesty reveals the political motivations and missionary aims of such claims. Some people with ill intentions spread the idea that it was burnt by the second Caliph Umar R.A. This grand library of Alexandria was already destroyed before the Islamic era.
