A summary of its 21 books, or nasks (of which only one is preserved as such in the Vidēvdāt), is given in one of the main treatises written during the brief Zoroastrian renascence under Islam in the 9th century: the Dēnkart, the "Acts of the Religion".
1631 or 1632 Al-Najaf, Iraq Mīr Dāmād, original name Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Ad-dāmād (died 1631/32, near Najaf, Iraq) philosopher, teacher, and leader in the cultural renascence of Iran during the Ṣafavid dynasty.
Hecht was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and after attending high school in Racine, Wisconsin, he moved to Chicago, then in the midst of an artistic and literary renascence.
Within 20 years Czechs had won a majority on the City Council, and Czech cultural life was experiencing a renascence centred on Prague.
C. 820 - c. 900 Constantinople, Turkey Saint Photius, (born c. 820, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey] died 10th century, ?; feast day February 6) patriarch of Constantinople (858 867 and 877 886), defender of the autonomous traditions of his church against Rome and leading figure of the 9th-century Byzantine renascence.
The society of the Rosati, which was established in 1778 and saw a renascence in 1877, was instrumental in reviving regional literature.
Harbinger of this whole awakening of Bulgarian national consciousness (known as the Vuzrazhdane) was Father Paisy of Chilandari, whose single work, Istoria slavyanobulgarska (1762; "Slavo-Bulgarian History"), by its romantic evocation of Bulgaria's past and appeal to national self-respect inspired Bulgaria's renascence, including its first able modern writers.
But "Golden Kiev" was always present, in lore and bookish tradition, as a source of emulation and renascence.
Scarcely existent outside of Myanmar, this instrument underwent a renascence in the 20th century.
The relationship between abstract and concrete truth was, incidentally, taken up in the 19th-century Hindu renascence as a parallel to the doctrine of the Absolute the Advaita (nondualism), the dominant expression of Hindu metaphysics—held by the 8th-century Hindu philosopher Śaṅkara.
