@article{lassner1994doing,
  source = {jstor},
  ISSN = {0003-0279},
  abstract = {Having been thrust into the post-modern age (a century and a half after the birth of the American Oriental Society) how are scholars trained in oriental studies to do Islamic history? Put somewhat differently: given the highly tendentious nature of those sources that describe the formative centuries of Islam, what is the relationship between medieval literary texts and actual states of the past? In sum, what may we safely expect to recover of the past, given the cultural and methodological constraints that bind present day historians grappling with the vexing problems of early Islamic times?},
  author = {Lassner, Jacob},
  copyright = {Copyright 1994 American Oriental Society},
  journal = {Journal of the American Oriental Society},
  jstor_articletype = {Full Length Article},
  jstor_date = {199401/199403},
  jstor_formatteddate = {Jan. - Mar., 1994},
  month = {jan},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--10},
  publisher = {American Oriental Society},
  title = {"Doing" Early Islamic History: Brooklyn Baseball, Arabic Historiography, and Historical Memory},
  url = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28199401%2F03%29114%3A1%3C1%3A%22EIHBB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V},
  volume = {114},
  year = {1994},
}