From a young age he resisted the cultural and economic oppression of the Ottomans. In 1875 he was captured by the Ottoman authorities. After his release, he took part in several Albanian uprisings and was a member of the League of Prizren and the League of Peja, which met in January 1899. Like Isa Boletini, he was one of the key leaders of the 1910 Albanian uprisings in Kosovo, during which Albanians, enraged by new taxes, began fighting for their rights. Seferi was involved in the liberation of the cities of Ferizaj, Skopje, Kumanovo, Presheva and Gjilan from Ottoman troops. In the fighting in the gorge of Kaçanik from April 23 to 29, 1910, he led 5,000 Albanian fighters who stopped an almost 20,000-strong Ottoman army there, which was able to end the uprising in the end.
The uprisings against the Young Turk government in the spring of 1912, which also involved Boletini and Bajram Curri, were led by Seferi in the heavily contested area around Ferizaj. From October 1912 - during the First Balkan War - he fought with thousands of Albanian soldiers against Serbs at Bujanovac, Kumanovo, Llapi and Gollaku. He is credited with being one of the leaders of the Albanian uprisings of 1916, when Kosovo was occupied by Bulgarian troops during World War I.
Idriz Seferi died peacefully in his bed.
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