Glucosamine is a white crystal, odorless, and water soluble amino monosaccharide. It is available in the synovial fluid and has an important role in cartilage resilience and joint lubrication. As the body ages, it loses its ability to synthesis the glucosamine. This leads to stiffness, inflammation, and joint erosion which cause pain known as arthritis in back, knee, and neck. Glucosamine can relief the pain and assist in the rehabilitation of cartilage and refreshes synovial fluid. Main source for glucosamine preparation is the exoskeleton of shrimps or crabs. Marine sources of glucosamine preparation have different drawbacks, e.g., variations in composition under uncontrolled growth, seasonal and location dependency, heavy metal poisoning duo to contaminated oceans, and shellfish allergy to some of the people. Glucosamine is also available as chitin and chitosan or chitin and glucan, in some fungal cell wall including zygomycetes and ascomycetes respectively. Rhyzopus oryzae and Mucor indicus, two most important strains of zygomycetes fungi, are non-pathogenic microorganisms that can grow on a notable diversity of substrates including lignocellulosic hydrolysates containing several harsh inhibitors. In addition to high ethanol yield, the biomass of these fungi as a by-product has been used as a source of chitosan for production of e.g., superabsorbent polymers, fish feed, and a replacement for yeast extract, after autolysis. The yield of glucosamine preparation depends on several factors including acid concentration, acid to chitin (or chitosan) ratio, temperature, and retention time. In this study, a method for the recovery and purification of glucosamine from zygomycetes fungal biomass was developed. Firstly, the biomass (from R. oryzae ) was pretreated using NaOH at and diluted sulfuric acid at room temperature for proteins and polyphosphates removal respectively. The yields for protein and phosphate removal were 0.15 and 0.79, respectively. The pretreated biomass was hydrolyzed using hydrochloric acid solution, and after that the produced glucosamine was recovered from acidic solution by complete evaporation of acid after cold filtration. The impure glucosamine was purified and the obtained crystals demonstrated high purity according to FTIR and DTA analysis. The yield of glucosamine also was investigated at different acid concentrations (6-12 M), reaction temperatures ( ), and reaction times (1-6 h), and it was evident that these factors and also their interactions control the yield of glucosamine production. The optimum conditions for glucosamine preparation in this study were obtained at for 1 h using 12M acid or at for 6h, using 6M acid. Keywords: Glucosamine, Hydrolysis, Purification , Rhyzopus oryzae , Optimization, Chitosan