List of chapters in the Quran

The Quran is divided into 114 chapters, called surahs (; ) and around 6,200 verses (depending on school of counting) called ayahs (, ; ). Chapters are arranged broadly in descending order of length. For a preliminary discussion about the chronological order of chapters, see Surah.

Each surah except the ninth (al-Tawba) is preceded by a formula known as the basmala or tasmiah, which reads ' ("In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."). In twenty-nine surahs, this is followed by a group of letters called "muqaṭṭa'āt" (lit. "abbreviated" or "shortened"), unique combinations of a few letters whose meaning are unknown.