[pageonetoo]

...during the Sassanid era (224-642 C.E.),

I am so ignorant. Please enlighten me about what the hell "C.E. " stands for...

[Kenny Bunk]

C.E. is the politically correct way of saying "A.D." So instead of saying Anno Domini (In the year of Our Lord), we are now supposed to say in the Common Era, so as not to offend those who may have not recognized Christ. B.C. (Before Christ) is now supposed to be B.C.E. (Before the Common Era.)

Islam has it's own dating system, which starts the history clock at the time of Muhammed's (May Peace Be Upon Him) trip to Mecca in 632 A.D., soon thereafter to begin the eventual wholesale slaughter, enslavement, mutilation, or at least disenfranchisement of those Christians throughout the Middle east who refused to convert.