Seattle, WA and New York City, NY
A student of Pir Moineddin Jablonski, Murshid Wali Ali Meyer and as Khadija said "pretty much everyone these days", she accepted as a working hypothesis that “there is nothing but God,” and sought that experience everywhere. A traveler on the Sufi path starting in 1973, she first encountered her beloved “Soofies” in her early 20's in a Beverly Hills, California theatre via Murshid SAM in the film “Sunseed.”
In 1994 with her husband Mansur, Khadija served as the semazen bashi (dance master) at the dargah of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi in Konya,Turkey. In 2007, she organized a Universal Worship Service with Ruhaniat, Sufi Order, and Sufi Movement ministers celebrating Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan’s 80th Urs in New Delhi, India. After retiring as a trustee on the Ruhaniat board and as a Northwest Sufi Camp co-founder and 15-year board veteran, she served as a Dances of Universal Peace senior mentor; as a for the Service of Universal Peace and as a DHO initiator. Khadija’s path explored Hazrat Inayat Khan and Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi’s spiritual transmissions via Dance, Spiritual Walk and Turn, Khilvat (retreat), Services of Universal Peace, the Dervish Healing Service, astrology; photography, and friendship/groups/community. She was a mother and grandmother. She passed on May 13, 2021. Ya Salaamo!