Yunus, is the 10th chapter (surah) of the Quran with 109 verses (ayat). Yunus is named after the prophet Yunus (Jonah). According to tafsir chronology, it is believed to have been revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina (Hijra), as such, it is known as a Meccan surah.
Jonah and the giant fish in the Jami' al-tawarikh (c. 1400), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jonah (top-right) in the 1583 Ottoman manuscript Zubdat al-Tawarikh.
Jonah or Jonas is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE. He is the central figure of the Book of Jonah, which details his reluctance in delivering the judgment of Yahweh to the city of Nineveh in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. After he is swallowed by a large sea creature and then released, he returns to the divine mission.
The Prophet Jonah (c. 1508–1512) by Michelangelo (the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman
Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours
Illustration of Jonah being swallowed by the fish from the Kennicott Bible, folio 305r (1476), in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
