And I'll repeat the criterion (and not my criterion) for judging a scholar in the field which I believe is actually the Wikipedia criterion. It is very simple. Savory has written dozens of articles with regards to Safavid history in peer reviewed journals, he has written books that are cited by scholars on the subject and furthermore he is the one that wrote most of the Safavid related articles in Iranica, Encyclopedia of Islam and Cambridge history of Iran and etc... So no, all historians (and Tapper is not a historian) do not have equal weight when there is a contradiction. For example Minorsky and Savory have
And I'll repeat the criterion (and not my criterion) for judging a scholar in the field which I believe is actually the Wikipedia criterion. It is very simple. Savory has written dozens of articles with regards to Safavid history in peer reviewed journals, he has written books that are cited by scholars on the subject and furthermore he is the one that wrote most of the Safavid related articles in Iranica, Encyclopedia of Islam and Cambridge history of Iran and etc... So no, all historians (and Tapper is not a historian) do not have equal weight when there is a contradiction. For example Minorsky and Savory have written