He was born in the village of Marjan of the region of Opar (and now part of the Maliq municipality in Korçë County, southeastern Albania).

He emigrated to Greece where he wrote in Anastas Kullurioti's weekly The Voice of Albania, (Greek: Η φωνή της Αλβανίας).

One of his most important poems was a ballad of 150 verses entitled The Albanians who fight in Gucia.

One of his most important photos is the one that documented the first Albanian school, opened in 1887 (the picture dates 1899).

[3] In 1892 Shuli went to Shkodër to meet with Kel Marubi and Kolë Idromeno with whom he shared his experience.