Let me see... well, I had to look no further than the second Surat, Surat Al Baqarah, the first part of which seems to have been written specifically for us.. Interesting site there, you can get several different transliterations and languages, with the top one being the most basic in English.
Alhtough I guess this was intended for the polytheists, since declared atheism back then was never thought of, as such. Then again, you could argue that, like many modern Japanese, polytheism could be said to be "atheistic and superstitious": at least in Ancient Greece it was much more of a Cheering And Professing social construct than an Actually Believing thing. Perhaps Christianity and Islam were actually exotic novelties, for the people of the time. But I'm extrapolating way beyond my league here.
You didn't give any analysis or even explanation of what it is you want us to look for. What is particularly persuasive about what element of the text? Is the persuasive argument you refer to leads to an incorrect conclusion (name both the conclusion and the argument)? (I fail to see the point or meaning of the second paragraph of your comment, though maybe I just lack the necessary background.)
(It's my first time posting an article, so please go easy on me.)
I wonder if anyone ever fully analysed the Qran and all the resources it uses to tug at the feelings of the reader? It is a remarkably persuasive (if not at all convincing) book, even if I say so myself as an ex Muslim. I've started recognizing some patterns since I started reading this site, but I'd like to know if there is a full-blown, complete, exhaustive deconstruction of that book, that is not dripped in islamophobia, ethnocentrism, and other common failures I have seen in Western theologians when applied to Islam. Not a book about "How the Qran is evil" or "How the Qran is Wrong" or "How IT'S A FAAAKE" but "How, precisely, it manipulates you". Can anyone here point me towards such a work?
And where is the markup help in this blog? I can't seem to find it and it frustrates the hell out of me when I'm commenting usual posts.