<![CDATA[This study aims to analyze the legal framework of inheritance in the Qur’an ( QS. An-Nisâ/4: 11-12, 176) in dialogue with Biblical texts (Numbers 27: 1–11; Deuteronomy 21:15–17) through Julia Kristeva’s intertextual approach and Angelika Neuwirth’s historical-critical perspective within the discourse of Late Antiquity. This is a qualitative study employing library research techniques to analyze primary and secondary sources. The results of the study indicate that a process of transposition of inheritance law narratives between the Bible (genotext) and the Qur’an (phenotext) occurs quite explicitly, reflected in several intertextual mechanisms such as transformation, expansion, parallelism, defamiliarization, and demystification. Thus, from Julia Kristeva’s intertextual perspective, the Qur’an does not merely reproduce previous narratives of inheritance law, but reconstructs and develops them into a more comprehensive, systematic, and universal legal system. Meanwhile, from Angelika’s perspective, the Qur’an is understood as a religious discourse within the context of Late Antiquity that is dialogical and communicative; consequently, the emergence of the inheritance verses is regarded as a response to the social realities of early Arab society. Furthermore, these findings also have implications for the contemporary debate on gender-just reforms of Islamic inheritance law, while simultaneously situating the process of intertextual transposition within the ongoing discourse among contemporary Muslim communities.]]>
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