List of all 114 Surahs of the Quran
Every Surah in the order it appears in the Quran, with its Arabic name, its meaning in English, how many verses it has and whether it was revealed in Mecca or Medina. Each name links to a plain-English explanation of why that Surah was revealed and what it asks of the reader.
The Quran has 114 Surahs and 6,236 verses in the Ḥafṣ numbering used in the standard printed muṣḥaf. Verse counts differ slightly in some other recitation traditions, and a small number of Surahs are classified as Meccan by some scholars and Medinan by others.
| # | Surah | Arabic | Meaning | Verses | Revealed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al-Fātiḥah | الفاتحة | The Opening | 7 | Meccan |
| 2 | Al-Baqarah | البقرة | The Cow | 286 | Medinan |
| 3 | Āl ʿImrān | آل عمران | The Family of Imran | 200 | Medinan |
| 4 | An-Nisāʾ | النساء | The Women | 176 | Medinan |
| 5 | Al-Māʾidah | المائدة | The Table Spread | 120 | Medinan |
| 6 | Al-Anʿām | الأنعام | The Cattle | 165 | Meccan |
| 7 | Al-Aʿrāf | الأعراف | The Heights | 206 | Meccan |
| 8 | Al-Anfāl | الأنفال | The Spoils of War | 75 | Medinan |
| 9 | At-Tawbah | التوبة | The Repentance | 129 | Medinan |
| 10 | Yūnus | يونس | Jonah | 109 | Meccan |
| 11 | Hūd | هود | Hud | 123 | Meccan |
| 12 | Yūsuf | يوسف | Joseph | 111 | Meccan |
| 13 | Ar-Raʿd | الرعد | The Thunder | 43 | Medinan |
| 14 | Ibrāhīm | إبراهيم | Abraham | 52 | Meccan |
| 15 | Al-Ḥijr | الحجر | The Rocky Tract | 99 | Meccan |
| 16 | An-Naḥl | النحل | The Bee | 128 | Meccan |
| 17 | Al-Isrāʾ | الإسراء | The Night Journey | 111 | Meccan |
| 18 | Al-Kahf | الكهف | The Cave | 110 | Meccan |
| 19 | Maryam | مريم | Mary | 98 | Meccan |
| 20 | Ṭā Hā | طه | Ta-Ha | 135 | Meccan |
| 21 | Al-Anbiyāʾ | الأنبياء | The Prophets | 112 | Meccan |
| 22 | Al-Ḥajj | الحج | The Pilgrimage | 78 | Medinan |
| 23 | Al-Muʾminūn | المؤمنون | The Believers | 118 | Meccan |
| 24 | An-Nūr | النور | The Light | 64 | Medinan |
| 25 | Al-Furqān | الفرقان | The Criterion | 77 | Meccan |
| 26 | Ash-Shuʿarāʾ | الشعراء | The Poets | 227 | Meccan |
| 27 | An-Naml | النمل | The Ant | 93 | Meccan |
| 28 | Al-Qaṣaṣ | القصص | The Stories | 88 | Meccan |
| 29 | Al-ʿAnkabūt | العنكبوت | The Spider | 69 | Meccan |
| 30 | Ar-Rūm | الروم | The Romans | 60 | Meccan |
| 31 | Luqmān | لقمان | Luqman | 34 | Meccan |
| 32 | As-Sajdah | السجدة | The Prostration | 30 | Meccan |
| 33 | Al-Aḥzāb | الأحزاب | The Combined Forces | 73 | Medinan |
| 34 | Sabaʾ | سبأ | Sheba | 54 | Meccan |
| 35 | Fāṭir | فاطر | The Originator | 45 | Meccan |
| 36 | Yā Sīn | يس | Ya-Sin | 83 | Meccan |
| 37 | Aṣ-Ṣāffāt | الصافات | Those Who Set the Ranks | 182 | Meccan |
| 38 | Ṣād | ص | Sad | 88 | Meccan |
| 39 | Az-Zumar | الزمر | The Troops | 75 | Meccan |
| 40 | Ghāfir | غافر | The Forgiver | 85 | Meccan |
| 41 | Fuṣṣilat | فصلت | Explained in Detail | 54 | Meccan |
| 42 | Ash-Shūrā | الشورى | The Consultation | 53 | Meccan |
| 43 | Az-Zukhruf | الزخرف | The Ornaments of Gold | 89 | Meccan |
| 44 | Ad-Dukhān | الدخان | The Smoke | 59 | Meccan |
| 45 | Al-Jāthiyah | الجاثية | The Crouching | 37 | Meccan |
| 46 | Al-Aḥqāf | الأحقاف | The Wind-Curved Sandhills | 35 | Meccan |
| 47 | Muḥammad | محمد | Muhammad | 38 | Medinan |
| 48 | Al-Fatḥ | الفتح | The Victory | 29 | Medinan |
| 49 | Al-Ḥujurāt | الحجرات | The Rooms | 18 | Medinan |
| 50 | Qāf | ق | Qaf | 45 | Meccan |
| 51 | Adh-Dhāriyāt | الذاريات | The Winnowing Winds | 60 | Meccan |
| 52 | Aṭ-Ṭūr | الطور | The Mount | 49 | Meccan |
| 53 | An-Najm | النجم | The Star | 62 | Meccan |
| 54 | Al-Qamar | القمر | The Moon | 55 | Meccan |
| 55 | Ar-Raḥmān | الرحمن | The Beneficent | 78 | Medinan |
| 56 | Al-Wāqiʿah | الواقعة | The Inevitable | 96 | Meccan |
| 57 | Al-Ḥadīd | الحديد | The Iron | 29 | Medinan |
| 58 | Al-Mujādilah | المجادلة | The Pleading Woman | 22 | Medinan |
| 59 | Al-Ḥashr | الحشر | The Exile | 24 | Medinan |
| 60 | Al-Mumtaḥanah | الممتحنة | She That Is to Be Examined | 13 | Medinan |
| 61 | Aṣ-Ṣaff | الصف | The Ranks | 14 | Medinan |
| 62 | Al-Jumuʿah | الجمعة | The Congregation, Friday | 11 | Medinan |
| 63 | Al-Munāfiqūn | المنافقون | The Hypocrites | 11 | Medinan |
| 64 | At-Taghābun | التغابن | The Mutual Disillusion | 18 | Medinan |
| 65 | Aṭ-Ṭalāq | الطلاق | The Divorce | 12 | Medinan |
| 66 | At-Taḥrīm | التحريم | The Prohibition | 12 | Medinan |
| 67 | Al-Mulk | الملك | The Sovereignty | 30 | Meccan |
| 68 | Al-Qalam | القلم | The Pen | 52 | Meccan |
| 69 | Al-Ḥāqqah | الحاقة | The Reality | 52 | Meccan |
| 70 | Al-Maʿārij | المعارج | The Ascending Stairways | 44 | Meccan |
| 71 | Nūḥ | نوح | Noah | 28 | Meccan |
| 72 | Al-Jinn | الجن | The Jinn | 28 | Meccan |
| 73 | Al-Muzzammil | المزمل | The Enshrouded One | 20 | Meccan |
| 74 | Al-Muddaththir | المدثر | The Cloaked One | 56 | Meccan |
| 75 | Al-Qiyāmah | القيامة | The Resurrection | 40 | Meccan |
| 76 | Al-Insān | الإنسان | Man | 31 | Medinan |
| 77 | Al-Mursalāt | المرسلات | The Emissaries | 50 | Meccan |
| 78 | An-Nabaʾ | النبأ | The Tidings | 40 | Meccan |
| 79 | An-Nāziʿāt | النازعات | Those Who Drag Forth | 46 | Meccan |
| 80 | ʿAbasa | عبس | He Frowned | 42 | Meccan |
| 81 | At-Takwīr | التكوير | The Overthrowing | 29 | Meccan |
| 82 | Al-Infiṭār | الانفطار | The Cleaving | 19 | Meccan |
| 83 | Al-Muṭaffifīn | المطففين | The Defrauding | 36 | Meccan |
| 84 | Al-Inshiqāq | الانشقاق | The Splitting Open | 25 | Meccan |
| 85 | Al-Burūj | البروج | The Mansions of the Stars | 22 | Meccan |
| 86 | Aṭ-Ṭāriq | الطارق | The Morning Star | 17 | Meccan |
| 87 | Al-Aʿlā | الأعلى | The Most High | 19 | Meccan |
| 88 | Al-Ghāshiyah | الغاشية | The Overwhelming | 26 | Meccan |
| 89 | Al-Fajr | الفجر | The Dawn | 30 | Meccan |
| 90 | Al-Balad | البلد | The City | 20 | Meccan |
| 91 | Ash-Shams | الشمس | The Sun | 15 | Meccan |
| 92 | Al-Layl | الليل | The Night | 21 | Meccan |
| 93 | Aḍ-Ḍuḥā | الضحى | The Morning Hours | 11 | Meccan |
| 94 | Ash-Sharḥ | الشرح | The Relief | 8 | Meccan |
| 95 | At-Tīn | التين | The Fig | 8 | Meccan |
| 96 | Al-ʿAlaq | العلق | The Clot | 19 | Meccan |
| 97 | Al-Qadr | القدر | The Power | 5 | Meccan |
| 98 | Al-Bayyinah | البينة | The Clear Proof | 8 | Medinan |
| 99 | Az-Zalzalah | الزلزلة | The Earthquake | 8 | Medinan |
| 100 | Al-ʿĀdiyāt | العاديات | The Courser | 11 | Meccan |
| 101 | Al-Qāriʿah | القارعة | The Calamity | 11 | Meccan |
| 102 | At-Takāthur | التكاثر | The Rivalry in World Increase | 8 | Meccan |
| 103 | Al-ʿAṣr | العصر | The Declining Day | 3 | Meccan |
| 104 | Al-Humazah | الهمزة | The Traducer | 9 | Meccan |
| 105 | Al-Fīl | الفيل | The Elephant | 5 | Meccan |
| 106 | Quraysh | قريش | Quraysh | 4 | Meccan |
| 107 | Al-Māʿūn | الماعون | The Small Kindnesses | 7 | Meccan |
| 108 | Al-Kawthar | الكوثر | The Abundance | 3 | Meccan |
| 109 | Al-Kāfirūn | الكافرون | The Disbelievers | 6 | Meccan |
| 110 | An-Naṣr | النصر | The Divine Support | 3 | Medinan |
| 111 | Al-Masad | المسد | The Palm Fibre | 5 | Meccan |
| 112 | Al-Ikhlāṣ | الإخلاص | The Sincerity | 4 | Meccan |
| 113 | Al-Falaq | الفلق | The Daybreak | 5 | Meccan |
| 114 | An-Nās | الناس | Mankind | 6 | Meccan |