 Pejani was born in the city of İpek (now Peć) in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire on 10 June 1885 with the name Bedri Thaçi, son of Abdi Thaçi (Pejani).To refer to his family origin he used the last name "Pejani" (from Ipek) as was custom for that period.Pejani was active in the Nationalist Movement of Albanians in the Skopje region against the Young Turk administration in 1908.