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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|LAW,_RELIGION_AND_THE_PROPHETIC_METHOD_OF_SOCIAL_CHANGE" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR EXISTENCE" />
          <pl ns="0" title="A Return to the Text" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Are you advocating the discarding of jihad" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Cevdet Said" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Current Islamic Issues" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Features of your project" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Intellectual Healing" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Intellectuals: The &quot;Blind Guides&quot;" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Interpretation of the holy texts" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Is the Islamic mind in a crisis?" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>