Moshé Idel

2.5k total citations
80 papers, 549 citations indexed

About

Moshé Idel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moshé Idel has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 549 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 40 papers in Philosophy and 29 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Moshé Idel's work include Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (38 papers), Medieval and Classical Philosophy (34 papers) and Biblical Studies and Interpretation (22 papers). Moshé Idel is often cited by papers focused on Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (38 papers), Medieval and Classical Philosophy (34 papers) and Biblical Studies and Interpretation (22 papers). Moshé Idel collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Ethiopia and Switzerland. Moshé Idel's co-authors include David R. Blumenthal, Shahar Arzy, Olaf Blanke, Théodor Landis, Joshua Trachtenberg, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Shlomo Pines, Warren Zev Harvey and Frances A. Yates and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Medical Hypotheses and Journal of Consciousness Studies.

In The Last Decade

Moshé Idel

57 papers receiving 323 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Moshé Idel Israel 11 288 240 125 122 69 80 549
Kocku von Stuckrad Brazil 11 251 0.9× 279 1.2× 72 0.6× 58 0.5× 41 0.6× 70 470
Richard Gombrich United Kingdom 12 299 1.0× 130 0.5× 16 0.1× 283 2.3× 167 2.4× 51 617
Johannes Bronkhorst Switzerland 12 179 0.6× 181 0.8× 31 0.2× 332 2.7× 57 0.8× 117 534
Elaine H. Pagels United States 9 175 0.6× 96 0.4× 94 0.8× 124 1.0× 32 0.5× 28 395
Sarah Coakley United Kingdom 11 229 0.8× 141 0.6× 10 0.1× 118 1.0× 34 0.5× 44 403
Jeffrey J. Kripal United States 10 124 0.4× 129 0.5× 14 0.1× 33 0.3× 20 0.3× 36 328
Edward Conzé Germany 11 166 0.6× 135 0.6× 18 0.1× 177 1.5× 45 0.7× 57 460
Anthony C. Thiselton United Kingdom 10 183 0.6× 73 0.3× 51 0.4× 252 2.1× 16 0.2× 44 390
Egil Asprem United States 11 164 0.6× 177 0.7× 25 0.2× 13 0.1× 27 0.4× 41 376
Kallistos Ware United Kingdom 8 136 0.5× 42 0.2× 16 0.1× 52 0.4× 40 0.6× 26 307

Countries citing papers authored by Moshé Idel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Moshé Idel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moshé Idel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Moshé Idel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Moshé Idel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Moshé Idel. Moshé Idel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Idel, Moshé. (2025). Abraham Abulafia and the Emergence of Christian Kabbalah. 22(1). 15–37.
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Idel, Moshé. (2024). On Equality and Irreducibility of Female to Male in Safedian Forms of Kabbalah. 1–17. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2014). Mongol invasions and astrology: two sources of Apocalyptic Elements in 13th Century Kabbalah. 145–168.
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Idel, Moshé. (2011). Multiple Forms of Redemption in Kabbalah and Hasidism. The Jewish Quarterly Review. 101(1). 27–70. 3 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2010). Abordări metodologice în studiile religioase/ Methodological Approaches in Religious Studies. Journal for the Study of Religious and Ideologies. 6(16). 5–20. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2010). On Solomon Schechter in the Pages of JQR. The Jewish Quarterly Review. 100(4). 551–555. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2010). Hermeneutics in Hasidism. Journal for the Study of Religious and Ideologies. 9(25). 3–16. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2010). «Unio Mystica» as a Criterion: Some Observations on «Hegelian» Phenomenologies of Mysticism. Journal for the Study of Religious and Ideologies. 1(1). 19–41. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2007). Ashkenazi esotericism and kabbalah in Barcelona. 69–113.
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Idel, Moshé. (2007). Methodological approaches in religious studies. Journal for the Study of Religious and Ideologies. 6(16). 1 indexed citations
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Arzy, Shahar, Moshé Idel, Théodor Landis, & Olaf Blanke. (2005). Speaking With One's Self Autoscopic Phenomena in Writings from the Ecstatic Kabbalah. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 12(11). 4–29. 16 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2005). Androgyny and Equality in the Theosophico-Theurgical Kabbalah. Diogenes. 52(4). 27–38. 2 indexed citations
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Arzy, Shahar, Moshé Idel, Théodor Landis, & Olaf Blanke. (2005). Why revelations have occurred on mountains?. Medical Hypotheses. 65(5). 841–845. 21 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2003). Les Kabbalistes de la nuit. 2 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (2002). On Some Forms of Order in Kabbalah. Raisons politiques. 3–32. 1 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (1996). Dignitates and Kavod : Two theological concepts in Catalan mysticism. 36(92). 69–78. 2 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (1995). On Talismanic Language in Jewish Mysticism. Diogenes. 43(170). 23–41.
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Idel, Moshé, et al.. (1991). Maïmonide et la mystique juive. Éditions du Cerf eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Idel, Moshé. (1980). On the History of the Interdiction against the Study of Kabbalah before the Age of Forty [לפני גיל אדבעיס לחחולדוח האיסוד ללמוד קבללה]. AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies. 5. H1–H20. 1 indexed citations

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