His early role in what would become Isis led naturally to the senior position he now occupies within a revitalised insurgency that has spilled across the border into Syria.
He revitalised its repertory, with new works by himself and others; he encouraged a brilliant generation of dancers.
Three-nil, game over and QPR were on their way to a precious 4-1 victhat thas has revitalised their hopes of staying up.
Revitalised by the arrival of the hitherto little-known 33-year-old Alex Neil as manager from Hamilton Academical in January, Norwich are the division's hottest team with seven wins in their last eight games.
Editors eventually settled on Kitchenware, the revitalised Eighties independent (and longtime home to Prefab Sprout), bolstering the current renaissance in British boutique labels.
Two goals from the revitalised Christian Benteke, taking the striker's tally to 11 in his last nine club matches, and another from the outstanding Tom Cleverley brought Everton's six-match unbeaten league run to an end and lifted Villa up to 14th place in the table, above Newcastle United on goal difference.
About 130 million passengers a year use the railway station, linking London to commuter lines and cities north to Edinburgh, and now joined underground to the revitalised St Pancras.
Beyond beer, Pilsen is one of two 2015 European Capitals of Culture (along with Mons; see page 9), has a charming centre, and is seeing its rundown industrial areas revitalised, with artworks popping up in unlikely spaces.
London's neighbourhoods can be revitalised, as are other European cities, to higher densities without the visual bruising of point blocks.
Revitalised by late substitutions and some unlikely heroes, the US took advantage and will be in buoyant mood for the exhibition against Germany in Cologne on 10 June, and, surely, their defence of the Concacaf Gold Cup, which starts next month on home soil.
Despite the late nights, he says he wakes up feeling "fresh, revitalised", happy because if he "was waking up in London, 3-0 down in an Ashes series, I would be waking up with a severe headache".
