Which pairing of work and author is correct?

• A. The Guide to the Perplexed — Maimonides
• B. The Guide to the Perplexed — Avicenna
• C. Historia regum Britanniae — Avicenna
• D. Historia regum Britanniae — Rashi

Answer: (A)

Understanding who wrote which medieval work helps you place ideas in their proper historical and intellectual contexts. The Guide to the Perplexed, known in Hebrew as Moreh Nevukhim, is a 12th‑century philosophical treatise by Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon). In it he tries to harmonize Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish theology and law, addressing how faith and reason relate.

Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, is a separate medieval philosopher whose major works belong to Islamic thought, with influential texts like The Canon of Medicine and The Book of Healing. He did not write The Guide to the Perplexed.

Historia regum Britanniae, or History of the Kings of Britain, is Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin chronicle about legendary British kings, not a work associated with Avicenna or Rashi. Rashi was a medieval French commentator on the Hebrew Bible and Talmud, not a historian of Britain.

So the pairing that fits the historical record is The Guide to the Perplexed with Maimonides.