Both the Quraan and the Bible have stories on Jonah or Yunus in Arabic. The Quraan has it in Chapter 10 Jonah and the Bible in "The Book of Jonah". Some people in the West are quick to point out that the Quraan plagarised the Bible. This is not so because only the title is similar but the contents and the emphasis differ substantialy .
The Biblical Jonah is historical in nature focusing on events presented in narrative manner.Tthe story started with Jonah fleeing to the sea in a ship and after that cast away and he found himself in the belly of a big fish. Finally Jonah was brought ashore by this same fish. The story hardly mentioned the message God asked Jonah to deliver to the community at Nineveh.
The Quraanic Jonah. The story is not focused on events during Jonah's prophetic life but rather on what he said to his people as instructed by God. Jonah's adventure at sea, was but an example of the trial and tabulations prophets of old had to face, All of them were given the lie by the great majority of their people. Noah and Moses faced the same problem as Jonah
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