About Murshida Rabia

Murshida Rabia Ana Perez-Chisti, PhD., is an ordained minister, senior teacher and National Representative of the Sufi Movement International of the USA.

She also acts as the Moin-ul-Maham for the USA (head of the Universal Worship activity) and functions in co-leadership with Murshida Ulma Moerenburg in Europe. She serves as part a collaborative leadership on the Pir-O-Murshid Council and Executive Committee of the Sufi Movement. She has directed a training program to ordain Cherags (ministers of the Universal Worship of Hazrat Inayat Khan in the US) for more than 30 years having prepared hundreds of students in interfaith studies, spiritual ethics and counseling procedures that permit them to move into Chaplaincy and related positions that serve the global community.

Murshida Rabia is a Core Faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California and a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley. She specializes in subjects such as Comparative World Religions, the Mystical Traditions, Ethics, Eastern and Western Philosophy, Women Saints and Prophets: East and West, Jungian Psychology, Psycho-spiritual synthesis and Culture and Consciousness Studies. She lectures both regionally and internationally, is a published writer and a phenomenological and hermeneutic researcher. Her interests extend to the study of many languages, yoga, dance and the martial arts as she holds a black belt in Shorin-Ryu Karate.

She has maintained a private counseling practice in California for more than 20 years and served as a counselor in State, Government and private agencies that specialize in homeless shelter support, hospice care, prison reform, drug rehabilitation, and emergency food distribution in areas of the world where extreme conditions of natural disaster, war, and political upheavals have occurred.