The Impact of Philosophy on Imam al-Ghazzali
ِAbu Bakr ibn al-'Arabi (d. 543 A.H.) said of his teacher Imam al-Ghazali:
شيخنا أبو حامد بلع الفلاسفة ، وأراد أن يتقيأهم ، فما استطاع
"Our Shaykh Abu Hamid swallowed the [words and ideas of the] philosophers. He wanted to vomit them out, but he was unable to."[1]
[1] Al-Dhahabi, Siyar ‘Alaam an-Nubalaa’, vol. 19, p. 327