An Inquiry into Alienation from Erich Fromm's View and Comparing it with Islam's View

One of the fundamental issues of the modern world is alienation, which always has been of interest to Muslim and non-Muslim scholars. The purpose of this research was comparison and evaluation of Erich Fromm's view (follower of humanism school) and Islam's view at the context of alienation. The method of present research was descriptive-analytical. In this research after introduction and definitions of alienation and brief biography of Erich Fromm, Fromm's thoughts are presented in context of alienation and then investigated Islam's view in this context. Both views introduce alienation as separation of man from real self and both know alienation extremely harmful and dangerous for human. But in Fromm's view belief in God and religion causes alienation while in Islam's view we must search the roots and causes of the problem of alienation in the teachings of divine religions and faith in God and religion prevents human's alienation.