Il termine dābba/dawābb in due opere esegetiche sciite di epoca pre-buide

Several studies question Qur’anic anthropocentrism through the reading of some exegetical works that leave room for different reflections and interpreta- tions on the notion of istikhlāf and taskhīr, and more generally, allow us to fur- ther focus on the complex relationship between human beings and the animal world. My intention is to address these issues starting from the interpretation of the term dābba/dawābb, often translated and understood to refer only to ani- mals, as handed down to us by two Qur’anic commentaries, both entitled al- Tafsīr, written respectively by ʿAlī al-Qummī (d. after 919) and by Muḥammad al-ʿAyyāshī (d. 932): two works that convey numerous materials circulating at the time, in the form of accounts ascribed to the imams of the Imamite Shiite chain.