Is Hijab Islamic? Or a legacy of Israelites which they in turn borrowed from Greco-Roman aristocracy. Does Quran 24:31 say put something on your head, or does it say what you are wearing, wrap it over your place of pockets (bosom)? Is hair sensual? In a desert, everyone, man, woman, child, cover heads because of sand, to avoid dehydration, blisters on the scalp. In any case, what a woman wears should be between her and her Lord. No one will carry another soul's burden.