The event that sparked Arabian Nights into a modern European phenomenon was its translation by the French author Antoine Galland into French from a 15th century Arabic manuscript.

引发阿拉伯之夜成为现代欧洲现象的事件是法国作家安托万·加朗（Antoine Galland）将15世纪的阿拉伯手稿翻译成法语。