Short answers, pulled from the story.
Noah lived to be 950 years old and died 350 years after the great flood. He was born when his father Lamech was 182 years old and his life marked a pivotal turning point in human history.
God commanded Noah to build an ark to save his family and pairs of all land animals from a flood intended to return the Earth to its pre-Creation state of watery chaos. The ark served as a microcosm to destroy the evil of mankind and then remake the world.
Noah's son Ham saw his father naked and told his brothers, which led to Ham's son Canaan being cursed by Noah. Scholars speculate that Ham was guilty of engaging in incest and raping Noah or his own mother, which would clarify why Canaan was cursed.
The Quran contains 43 references to Noah, or Nu, in 28 chapters, and the seventy-first chapter, Srah Nuh, is named after him. Noah is seen as one of the most significant prophets in Islam and received a revelation to build an Ark after his people refused to believe in his message.
The Noah story of the Pentateuch is quite similar to a flood story contained in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC. The flood story in Genesis 6 and 8 matches the Gilgamesh flood myth so closely that few doubt that it derives from a Mesopotamian account.